[OpenIndiana-discuss] log messages from failed time-slider daemon

[Harry Putnam]

James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> writes:

> On 10/27/11 18:34, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Note that top line about `crontab'.  Is that the reason for the
>> subsequent failures?
>
> It appears to be.
>
>> What is going on that requires crontab to be read? And what might make
>> it not open.. permissions?
>
> The script this service runs modifies crontab entries (yecch!).  Not
> opening could be due to user modification of the time-slider service
> itself, bad permissions somewhere, or a read-only file system.
>
> Try:
>
> 	ls -ld /var/spool/cron/crontabs
> 	df /var/spool/cron/crontabs
>

  # ls -ld cron
  drwxr-xr-x 4 root sys 4 2011-09-12 06:47 cron

-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 

  # ls -ld cron/crontabs
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root sys 7 2011-10-28 22:13 cron/crontabs

-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 

  # df /var/spool/cron/crontabs
  Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
  rpool/ROOT/openindiana
                      27524993  16362570  11162423  60% /

-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 

  # /bin/df /var/spool/cron/crontabs
  /                  (rpool/ROOT/openindiana):22324845 blocks 22324845 files

-------        ---------       ---=---       ---------      -------- 

  # crontab -l > newcrontab
  # crontab newcrontab
   
    (no errors or warnings)
 
To my inexperienced eye, this all looks pretty normal... is it?