Bug 53418 – The default crontab does not get installed to /etc/crontab .

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Kelly 2004-06-09 08:41:00 UTC]

I just did a fresh stage1 install. In the post 'emerge system' stage, after emerging fcron, it says I need to run 'crontab /etc/crontab'. The problem is that /etc/crontab does not exist after emerging fcron. I checked out the fcron ebuild file and noticed a mistake in the path to the source crontab.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Emerge fcron on a freshly installed Gentoo system.
2.Run 'crontab /etc/crontab' as root.


Actual Results:  
kingkong linux-2.6.5-gentoo-r1 # crontab /etc/crontab
17:01:21 installing file /etc/crontab for user root
17:01:21 User root can't read file "/etc/crontab": No such file or directory


Expected Results:  
Succes!

Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.26-mod1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.26-mod1 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/gentoo/
http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk
gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses
nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl
slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-06-09 11:05:06 UTC]

hmm, it looks to me like it installs the crontab correctly.  Wacha think, spanky?

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-06-09 11:33:26 UTC]

fcron-2.0.0-r4 has the wrong path ... but 2.9.4 does not ...

must have missed it when i was updating fcron a while back ... fixed in cvs, thanks