I see, I just upgraded to 1.4.8 on 14 Feb 2012, The log must be generated by an former version of cronie. Now it seems all gone, and I can't provid the spamed log because I have cleaned them up 2 days ago. Let's see, if there are spams again, I will post here. 2012/2/19 Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:26:46 +0800 > 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 2012/2/18 Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> > Am Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:25:54 +0800 >> > schrieb 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > >> >> Due to cronie doesn't contain an /etc/crontab anymore, there are losts >> >> of msgs of missing crontab as shown below in errors.log. >> >> >> >> > /usr/sbin/crond[1236]: (root) CAN'T OPEN (/etc/crontab): No such >> >> > file or directory >> > >> > Such an empty /etc/crontab would belong into the package cronie and not >> > into the package filesystem. It's cronie specific since fcron, which I >> > use, doesn't need and provide one. The corresponding, but also not >> > necessary file for fcron would be /etc/fcrontab. And I'm not sure if >> > such an empty /etc/crontab would affect fcron. >> > >> > If cronie doesn't provide an empty /etc/crontab and doesn't run >> > without it, it is a bug in cronie. >> > >> > Heiko >> >> It runs well,but just spam the error.log and crond.log without /etc/crontab. > > Since 1.4.8 cronie doesn't need /etc/crontab... Can you show relevant piece > of /var/log/crond.log? > > -- > Leonid Isaev > GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D > Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D