Hello, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi, > > Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis: > >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 11:55:05AM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >>> Hi Danny, >>> >>> Danny Milosavljevic <dan...@scratchpost.org> skribis: >>> >>> > $ crontab -e >>> > >>> > In unknown file: >>> > 0 (copy-file "/tmp/crontab.10313" "/var/cron/tabs/dannym") >>> > >>> > ERROR: In procedure copy-file: >>> > In procedure copy-file: No such file or directory >>> > >>> > /var/cron doesn't exit either. Maybe we should automatically create >>> > /var/cron ? >>> >>> Yes, this should be done in an activation snippet. >>> >> >> Should this be part of a crontab service > > That’s what I had in mind. > >> or does the mere existence of the files allow cron tasks to start >> working? > > Good question. Actually I think the crontab compatibility bit is rather > separate in mcron: AIUI, you have to run ‘crond’, not ‘mcron’, if you > want that to get that functionality (info "(mcron) Invoking cron or > crond"). > > So perhaps all this is moot unless/until we have an mcron-crond service. I think so. And since Dale Mellor, the original author of GNU Mcron advises to keep the crond service per-user rather than for the system [0], if we want a crond service it seems we should turn ourselves to Guix Home. Closing. [0] https://issues.guix.gnu.org/40950#5
