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Bug 467316 - sys-process/fcron-3.1.1: misleading comment in supplied /etc/crontab
Summary: sys-process/fcron-3.1.1: misleading comment in supplied /etc/crontab
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2013-04-26 08:54 UTC by Sven Schwyn (svoop)
Modified: 2016-11-17 22:07 UTC (History)
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Description Sven Schwyn (svoop) 2013-04-26 08:54:01 UTC
/etc/crontab contains the following comment:

# fcron:
# This is NOT the system crontab! fcron does not support a system crontab.
# to get /etc/cron.{hourly|daily|weekly|montly} working with fcron run
# crontab /etc/crontab
# as root.
# NOTE: This will REPLACE root's current crontab!!

This is not true, fcron does support a system crontab which is built with:

/usr/libexec/check_system_crontabs -f -s 0

The command mentioned in the above comment will not only overwrite the root crontab but also cause the system crontabs to run twice.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-11-17 22:07:23 UTC
Thanks for the report! This is now fixed:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=531e27c45e1f413da44d8a51ece0f59e454586fb