[Nix-dev] Re: [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - 14853 - MarcWeber - nixos/trunk/upstart-jobs

Ludovic Courtès ludo at gnu.org
Fri Apr 3 18:00:32 CEST 2009


Hello,

Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra at tudelft.nl>
writes:

> Marc Weber wrote:
>
>> +            If you neither create /etc/cron.deny nor /etc/cron.allow only root
>> +            will be allowed to have its own crontab file.
>
> It's /var/cron/cron.{deny|allow}, actually.
>
> Also, perhaps we should just create /var/cron/cron.deny in the Upstart job's
> start script if neither file exists, so that we don't get people complaining
> that cron doesn't work.

+1 (FWIW, that's what `atd.nix' does.)

Thanks,
Ludo'.




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