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 fai2.5.4 Fully Automatic Installation
ii fai-kernels1.6special kernels for FAI (Fully
Automatic Ins
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