[Nix-dev] Packaging a tool that registers in crontab

[Luca Bruno]

On 02/09/2014 13:10, Luca Bruno wrote:
> On 02/09/2014 12:53, Damien Cassou wrote:
>> I don't understand how that will help. What about distributions with
>> no systemd? What about the fact that it's the tool that writes and
>> updates the cron jobs (with the period and arguments). As the
>> packager, I have no clue about the profiles the users will have. 
> Confirming. I think you can report an issue in nixpkgs. It is annoying,
> systemd must not be the only way to set a timer to run a command. Since
> ever, users were able to use crontab.
I think the system is missing /var/spool/cron and /var/mail/<user> with
proper permissions. Didn't investigate deeply yet. However let's open a
nixpkgs issue, I think it should be solved with a couple of commands to
be executed in ExecStartPre of cron.service.