| Summary: | sys-process/fcron-3.1.1: misleading comment in supplied /etc/crontab | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Sven Schwyn (svoop) <gentoo> |
| Component: | [OLD] Server | Assignee: | Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) <whissi> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | cron-bugs+disabled |
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Thanks for the report! This is now fixed: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=531e27c45e1f413da44d8a51ece0f59e454586fb |
/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