> (I'm using vixie's crontab) you cannot really assume the crontab is > syntactically ok.
There is the posix standard, but there are also extra features that are not in the standard like the "value/step" http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/utilities/crontab.html ; anyway crontab(5) would be the de-facto reference on Debian. > I noticed **none** of my user crontabs were running due to a > systemd-crontab-generator parsing issue. In case of error, systemd-crontab-generator should only drop the incriminated line. > However in these cases I would expect to receive a notification of the > parsing/generatation error through email, exactly like cron does. The generators runs during the early boot and can't send e-mail without network support and disks still mounted read-only, only log to /dev/kmsg http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/Generators/ systemd-cron never sends e-mail by design; but the generator could be reworked to provided an alternative "debug/check" entry point to ask it to validate a single crontab file/line . This could be called during the build of the package on a test suite; and by crontab before updating a crontab. Alexandre Detiste -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
