its a fairly simple issue: wipe /var/spool/cron/* (touch .keep again ;) $emerge -C cronbase fcron vcron dcron $emerge fcron $crontab /etc/crontab and it will whine about: 15:27:11 Could not chdir to /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs: No such file or directory $mkdir /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs $crontab /etc/crontab 15:27:21 installing file /etc/crontab for user root Modifications will be taken into account right now. is it only to add a dodir /var/spool/cron/fcrontabs here, or is it something else? I'm not sure about permissions either, thats why I leave it up to you ;)
i can't seem to reproduce this error... doing as you did works perfectly on my system there is a dodir - with the right permissions, so that can't be the problem. however, you could have encountered another error, which occurs when you remerge fcron and there aren't any crontabs installed yet - this will be fixed as soon as we have portage wide keepdir support
okies, I'm closing this one down then.