bug#40499: closed (mcron missing initial directories?)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: mcron missing initial directories? Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 00:35:03 +0200

$ crontab -e

In unknown file:
           0 (copy-file "/tmp/crontab.10313" "/var/cron/tabs/dannym")

ERROR: In procedure copy-file:
In procedure copy-file: No such file or directory

/var/cron doesn't exit either.  Maybe we should automatically create /var/cron ?

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> Hello,
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
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> > Hi,
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> > Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
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> >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >>> Hi Danny,
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> >>> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:
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> >>> > $ crontab -e
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> >>> > In unknown file:
> >>> >            0 (copy-file "/tmp/crontab.10313" "/var/cron/tabs/dannym")
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> >>> > ERROR: In procedure copy-file:
> >>> > In procedure copy-file: No such file or directory
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> >>> > /var/cron doesn't exit either.  Maybe we should automatically create 
> >>> > /var/cron ?
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> >>> Yes, this should be done in an activation snippet.
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> >> Should this be part of a crontab service
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> > That’s what I had in mind.
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> >> or does the mere existence of the files allow cron tasks to start
> >> working?
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> > Good question.  Actually I think the crontab compatibility bit is rather
> > separate in mcron: AIUI, you have to run ‘crond’, not ‘mcron’, if you
> > want that to get that functionality (info "(mcron) Invoking cron or
> > crond").
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> > So perhaps all this is moot unless/until we have an mcron-crond service.
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> I think so.  And since Dale Mellor, the original author of GNU Mcron
> advises to keep the crond service per-user rather than for the system
> [0], if we want a crond service it seems we should turn ourselves to
> Guix Home.
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> Closing.
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> [0]  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40950#5
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