Hi all, I'm using FAI for a while now and just realised there we a problem with crontab and the way FAI handles the /tmp dir.
If you use the /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/simple/ configuration environment, there is a problem, I think, in scripts/LAST. There is the following lines : # if no separate /tmp partition exists, make link /tmp -> /var/tmp ifclass TMP_PARTITION || { rm -rf $target/tmp ln -s /var/tmp $target/tmp } The problem I see there is that crontab does not really like /tmp being a symlink. The result is when as a user you try to do a crontab -e to edit your crontab, it won't work at all : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -e crontab: no changes made to crontab The way to solve this is following : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rm /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mkdir -m 777 /tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# chmod o+t /tmp/ I commented out the lines concerning this TMP_PARTITION class and really think it shouldn't be there in the 'simple' examples. Understand me well, cron is not broken, it's just crontab -e that is broken by the symlink. you always could build your own crontab by using a file and 'crontab file'. Stefan ps: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/# dpkg -l | grep fai ii fai 2.5.4 Fully Automatic Installation ii fai-kernels 1.6 special kernels for FAI (Fully Automatic Ins -- #=- Stefan Berder tel : 6 14 80 -=# #=- Ingénieur système et réseau 01 53 95 14 80 -=# #=- TRANSPAC / DO-DAE-ADMP-iSO mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=# #=- /(bb|[^b]{2})/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=#