On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:01:52 +0800 > 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 2012/2/19 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) <techlivezheng@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > 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 >> >> Still have the problem: >> >> Feb 19 06:31:01 vbox02 /usr/sbin/crond[8394]: (root) CAN'T OPEN >> (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory >> Feb 19 06:32:01 vbox02 /usr/sbin/crond[8394]: (root) CAN'T OPEN >> (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory > > This is odd... you must have something in /var/spool/cron. Otherwise please > provide more info because your problem is not easily reproducible. > > -- > Leonid Isaev > GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D > Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D i have the same problem. i do have a file in /var/spool/cron/, because i have some user cron jobs to do. here's some log from /var/log/crond.log Mar 18 18:04:30 pop crontab[8708]: (pop) BEGIN EDIT (pop) Mar 18 18:04:32 pop crontab[8708]: (pop) REPLACE (pop) Mar 18 18:04:32 pop crontab[8708]: (pop) END EDIT (pop) Mar 18 18:05:01 pop /usr/sbin/crond[8619]: (root) CAN'T OPEN (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory Mar 18 18:05:01 pop /usr/sbin/crond[8619]: (pop) RELOAD (/var/spool/cron/pop)