Only start crond if there exist at least one schedule configured#1547
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Nice cleanup, only a minor comment!
crond shipped auto-enabled in finit (symlinked into enabled/), so it ran
on every boot. With no cron jobs /var/spool/cron/crontabs does not exist
and 'crond -f' exits non-zero, which finit then crash-loops until it gives
up ("Service crond keeps crashing, not restarting").
Ship crond available-only and let confd manage it: the schedule plugin
already rebuilds the crontab on every change, so enable + touch crond when
at least one consumer is active and disable it otherwise. No jobs, no
crond, no crash loop.
Signed-off-by: Mattias Walström <lazzer@gmail.com>
Write the crontab to admin.next on change and promote it on done, drop it on abort. Signed-off-by: Mattias Walström <lazzer@gmail.com>
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