Bug 474219

Summary:	Requires /etc/cron.d?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Patrice Dumas <pertusus>
Component:	crontabs	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	katzj, mmaslano, tmraz
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Description Patrice Dumas 2008-12-02 20:27:09 UTC

Description of problem:

Maybe crontabs should Requires /etc/cron.d? That way either cronie or
fcron-watch-config would be installed as a dependency.

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Comment 1 Marcela Mašláňová 2008-12-03 15:01:44 UTC

I've also some plans with requires in crontabs and other related packages. Do you think it's correct to look after jobs in cron.d, which is owned by cronie? I don't say that it can't be done, but IMHO user should read manual and set it up correctly. What do you think?

Comment 2 Patrice Dumas 2008-12-04 12:08:27 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I've also some plans with requires in crontabs and other related packages. Do
> you think it's correct to look after jobs in cron.d, which is owned by cronie?
> I don't say that it can't be done, but IMHO user should read manual and set it
> up correctly. What do you think?

I don't really understand your question. Are you saying that fcron-watch-config should not look in /etc/cron.d? Or that a user should know that he needs to install a scheduler, be it cronie or fcron-watch-config?

In any case I don't think /etc/crontab from crontabs should look in /etc/cron.d, it is right as it is now.

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2009-02-12 17:42:20 UTC

Having crontabs requiring /etc/cron.d means that you can't do a minimal install without cron, sendmail, etc anymore.

There's nothing about crontabs that requires /etc/cron.d, so requiring it really is kind of overkill.

Yes, you don't get working cron unless you have a cron daemon installed, but if I have it chkconfig'd off, they don't run either.