Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2011-04-26 22:24:31 +0200] Gaetan Bisson: The cronie package in [testing] aims at seamlessly replacing dcron. Version 1.4.7-5 features several packaging improvements: - use anacron for daily/weekly/monthly jobs - use run-parts rather than ad-hoc script - use vanilla configuration files Downside: after upgrading from 1.4.7-4, you will need to restart crond. (The configuration must be reloaded so that run-parts is used.) Please test and signoff. The file /etc/crontab must exist, even if it's empty, or inotify support will be disabled at runtime. As packaged, without this file: 2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 cron.info akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.7) 2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 cron.err akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]: (CRON) This directory or file can't be watched (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory 2011-04-27T09:16:16-04:00 cron.info akherou /usr/sbin/crond[21437]: (CRON) INFO (running without inotify support) After doing touch /etc/crontab: 2011-04-27T10:14:22-04:00 cron.info akherou /usr/sbin/crond[22784]: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.7) 2011-04-27T10:14:22-04:00 cron.info akherou /usr/sbin/crond[22784]: (CRON) INFO (running with inotify support) I suggest including an empty /etc/crontab in this package, as you made a conscious decision to enable inotify support in the build. Possibly it should have some comments in it explaining why it has no content, instead of a literally empty file. Other than that, this package is working fine for me, nice work.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4
Possibly it should have some comments in it explaining why it has no content, instead of a literally empty file. I suggest #m hh dd mo dw command It will help people read and write their crontabs. -- Cheers, -- Kwpolska (http://kwpolska.co.cc) O ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4
Am 27.04.2011 16:19, schrieb Ray Kohler: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson bis...@archlinux.org wrote: [2011-04-26 22:24:31 +0200] Gaetan Bisson: The cronie package in [testing] aims at seamlessly replacing dcron. Version 1.4.7-5 features several packaging improvements: - use anacron for daily/weekly/monthly jobs - use run-parts rather than ad-hoc script - use vanilla configuration files Downside: after upgrading from 1.4.7-4, you will need to restart crond. (The configuration must be reloaded so that run-parts is used.) Please test and signoff. The file /etc/crontab must exist, even if it's empty, or inotify support will be disabled at runtime. I would consider this an upstream bug that should be reported. inotify is perfectly capable of handling this situation (as it is done in 'tail -F' for example). signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kwpolska kwpol...@gmail.com wrote: Possibly it should have some comments in it explaining why it has no content, instead of a literally empty file. I suggest #m hh dd mo dw command It will help people read and write their crontabs. Well, if we want to do this, it would be better to have it match the actual format of that file, including the user field. ;) #mm hh dd mo dw user command I do agree with Thomas' comment that the requirement for this file is basically a bug, though.
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4
[2011-04-27 16:28:17 +0200] Thomas Bächler: Am 27.04.2011 16:19, schrieb Ray Kohler: The file /etc/crontab must exist, even if it's empty, or inotify support will be disabled at runtime. I would consider this an upstream bug that should be reported. inotify is perfectly capable of handling this situation (as it is done in 'tail -F' for example). I reported it upstream (by email...) and will release a new version with an empty /etc/crontab. -- Gaetan pgpkjeonpHoKj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] cronie-1.4.7-4
[2011-04-27 16:27:03 +0200] Kwpolska: Possibly it should have some comments in it explaining why it has no content, instead of a literally empty file. Good idea. I'll do that. :) I suggest #m hh dd mo dw command It will help people read and write their crontabs. `man 5 crontab` is extremely well written; documentation in /etc/crontab should rather go upstream. -- Gaetan
