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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/dcron: create directories if needed on startup
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 14:39:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200102143953.3c613b03@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200102123746.2404602-1-chrismcc@gmail.com>

Hello Christopher,

On Thu,  2 Jan 2020 12:37:46 +0000
Christopher McCrory <chrismcc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Create the /var/spool/cron/crontabs and /var/spool/cron/cronstamps directories
> on startup if they don't exist.  By default /var/spool is a symlink to /tmp so
> the contents get deleted on reboot.  If the cronstamps directory does not exist
> anything in /etc/cron.hourly/ , etc. will fail to run.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christopher McCrory <chrismcc@gmail.com>

We already have http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1196301/ pending to
fix the same issue. Could you instead have a look at Carlos patch and
see if it fixes the problem for you as well ?

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-02 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-02 12:37 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/dcron: create directories if needed on startup Christopher McCrory
2020-01-02 13:39 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2020-01-02 14:24   ` Christopher McCrory

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