I found a problem with cron tab. After each restart of the computer, the /var/spool/crontab/lastrun directory is missing from the system. Additionally, in /usr/sbin/run-crons of sys-process/cronbase there is a line 177: touch "${LASTRUNDIR}" which causes that a file is created in place of missing directory. It ends up with following error messages in my logs: touch: cannot touch '/var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly': Not a directory touch: cannot touch '/var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily': Not a directory touch: cannot touch '/var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly': Not a directory touch: cannot touch '/var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly': Not a directory and it requires manual removal of lastrun file and creation of directory. My workaround solution is to add a line: mkdir -p "${LASTRUNDIR}" just before the touch command mentioned above, but it is always created after the first run-crons calls, so always first time ends up with the error. Another solution would be maybe to add in line 124 following code: test -d "{LASTRUNDIR}" || mkdir -p "${LASTRUNDIR}" I use sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r14 and sys-process/cronbase-0.3.7-r6
I am going to guess that this problem is not with cronbase, but with a mixed bag of mounts when cronbase was installed. If /var/spool/cron/lastrun/ was created on whatever device is mounted root (/), and later, a device is mounted at /var, where that "later device" doesn't have a spool/cron/lastrun directory, your mounts as a whole will show no /var/spool/cron/lastrun/ Show the output of your `df` command. If there is a mount at /var, or at /var/spool, umount that and check to see if var/spool/cron/lastrun/ was created on the device mounted as "/"
Good hit. Now I realized that my /var/spool was on tmpfs. It was old issue related to my SSD disk, I found some advice to put /var/spool on tmpfs, but it doesn't work for Gentoo.
