Re: [Cronie-devel] [Cronie]errors.log shows "/usr/sbin/crond: (root) CAN'T OPEN (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory"
by Marcela Mašláňová
On 03/19/2012 09:16 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
> Hi,I don't know whether this is a bug or something, but I can not find
> what caused this. I was suggested by someone to report to the
> upstream, so here I am.
>
> I am a Arch Linux User, and cronie is now Arch default cron daemon.
>
> The following messages have spammed my errors.log and crond.log for a
> few days, I don't know how to stop it.
>
> Feb 6 04:00:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) This directory or
> file can't be watched (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory
> Feb 6 04:00:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running
> without inotify support)
> Feb 6 04:00:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (root) CAN'T OPEN
> (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory
> Feb 6 04:00:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (*system*) RELOAD
> (/etc/cron.d/0hourly)
> Feb 6 04:01:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) This directory or
> file can't be watched (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory
> Mar 17 12:21:34 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running with
> inotify support)
> Mar 17 23:10:39 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.8)
> Mar 17 23:10:39 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running with
> inotify support)
> Mar 17 23:10:39 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (@reboot jobs
> will be run at computer's startup.)
> Mar 18 05:34:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (root) CAN'T OPEN
> (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory
> Mar 18 05:52:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (root) CAN'T OPEN
> (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory
> Mar 18 05:52:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (*system*) RELOAD
> (/etc/cron.d/ispcp)
> Mar 18 06:30:55 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.8)
> Mar 18 06:30:56 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running with
> inotify support)
> Mar 18 06:30:56 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (@reboot jobs
> will be run at computer's startup.)
> Mar 18 08:08:18 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.8)
> Mar 18 08:08:18 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running with
> inotify support)
> Mar 18 08:12:59 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.8)
> Mar 18 08:12:59 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running with
> inotify support)
> Mar 18 18:03:34 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.8)
> Mar 18 18:03:34 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running with
> inotify support)
> Mar 18 18:05:16 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.8)
> Mar 18 18:05:16 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running with
> inotify support)
> Mar 18 18:16:06 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) STARTUP (1.4.8)
> Mar 18 18:16:06 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (CRON) INFO (running with
> inotify support)
> Mar 18 22:13:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (root) CAN'T OPEN
> (/etc/crontab): No such file or directory
> Mar 18 22:13:01 vbox03 /usr/sbin/crond: (*system*) RELOAD
> (/etc/cron.d/ispcp)
>
> I thought cronie does not need /etc/crontab any more, but why it
> complains about it in the log?
>
> Here is the original disscussion in the Arch General Mailing List:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.general/39947
>
> If you need any further details, please let me know, I will provide
> anything that could help.
Hi,
on my computer is the warning printed out everytime I modify some
crontab. In my distribution (Fedora) is /etc/crontab still created, but
empty. Some users prefer to set up their daily jobs here.
If the warning wasn't printed, it might be a problem for people using
it. I guess I could add some tweak into Makefile, so distribution could
pick if they compile the support with or without /etc/crontab. I added
it into our trac to think about it more [1].
Regards,
Marcela
[1] https://fedorahosted.org/cronie/ticket/10
12 years, 1 month
seems a typo in man page
by Auguste Pop
hi,
here is what i see in the man page of crontab.5:
"Lines whose first non-white space character is a pound-sign (#)
are comments, and are note processed."
i think it should be something like this:
"Lines whose first non-white space character is a pound-sign (#)
are comments, and are not processed."
pay attention to the penultimate word of the sentence.
i have attached a git patch for your convenience.
best regards,
12 years, 1 month