From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:02:57 +0000
Subject: [Buildroot] crontab: can't change directory to
 '/var/spool/cron/crontabs': No such file or directory
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Hello,

Just noticed this:
------------------>8-------------------
# crontab -e
crontab: can't change directory to '/var/spool/cron/crontabs': No such file or directory
------------------>8-------------------

Obvious solution is:
------------------>8-------------------
# mkdir -p /var/spool/cron/crontabs
------------------>8-------------------

But the question is if we want that to be done automatically and if
we do want how (read "where") to do it properly?

The point is crond is enabled by default in Busybox, see
https://git.busybox.net/buildroot/tree/package/busybox/busybox.config#n664
so users expect crond to just work but that doesn't happen :)

Any thoughts?

-Alexey