Hello, this bug report is now twelve years old.
As Christian Kastner proposed a reasonable workaround for xavier renaut's use case, and as xavier renaut sent no reply for many years, I close this bug report. Best regards, Georges. Christian Kastner a écrit : > Hi, > > On 2011-10-31 15:32, xavier renaut wrote: > > I hard link /etc/crontab to track it under svn, but > > to have the checkout somewhere else than /etc/ > > > > So /etc/crontab has 2 hardlinks, > > and cron is now complaining about it : > > Oct 3 09:35:01 natch /usr/sbin/cron[3878]: (*system*) NUMBER OF HARD LINKS > > > 1 (/etc/crontab) > > > > Is there something to do ? or the security gain is too high for this to be > > fixed ? > > I'm afraid it's the latter; we can't allow that for security reasons. > > What you could do is make /etc/crontab a symlink to the file in svn. The > symlink owner must be root, see cron(8). > > Christian > > PS: Personally, I can highly recommend the use a configuration > management system such as puppet or cfengine. etckeeper might also be of > interest to you. > > -- Georges KHAZNADAR et Jocelyne FOURNIER 22 rue des mouettes, 59240 Dunkerque France. Téléphone +33 (0)3 28 29 17 70
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