[Nix-dev] Setting up crontab as nixos user

[Lluís Batlle i Rossell]

I use user crontabs since years in nixos. Both with vixie and fcron. I don't
remember seeing this trouble. Maybe I lag one month or so in nixos, so I'm not
running master HEAD.

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 08:10:19AM +0200, Damien Cassou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how can nixos users (not the nixos system, but simple users) specify
> cron jobs? If a user writes:
> 
> $ crontab -e
> 
> then he is presented with a file that has this warning:
> 
> DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> 
> If the user modifies the file nonetheless, cron will never run the
> added jobs. I tried with:
> 
> */1 * * * * date >> /tmp/crontest.txt
> 
> and the file crontest.txt never contains any date.
> 
> If the user creates its own crontab file and then registers it, it won't work:
> 
> $ crontab /tmp/my.cron
> cannot chdir(/var/cron), bailing out.
> /var/cron: Permission denied
> 
> 
> Can you please tell me how simple users can register jobs on nixos?
> 
> -- 
> Damien Cassou
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> 
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