Am 27.04.2011 16:19, schrieb Ray Kohler: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Gaetan Bisson <bis...@archlinux.org> wrote: >> [2011-04-26 22:24:31 +0200] Gaetan Bisson: >>> The cronie package in [testing] aims at seamlessly replacing dcron. >> >> Version 1.4.7-5 features several packaging improvements: >> - use anacron for daily/weekly/monthly jobs >> - use run-parts rather than ad-hoc script >> - use vanilla configuration files >> >> Downside: after upgrading from 1.4.7-4, you will need to restart crond. >> (The configuration must be reloaded so that run-parts is used.) >> >> Please test and signoff. > > The file /etc/crontab must exist, even if it's empty, or inotify > support will be disabled at runtime.
I would consider this an upstream bug that should be reported. inotify is perfectly capable of handling this situation (as it is done in 'tail -F' for example).
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