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fcron fails to start #32882

Open alunduil opened 6 years ago

alunduil commented 6 years ago

Issue description

When starting fcron on a freshly created host (via nixops), the service fails to start with an error indicating that /var/spool/fcron is not accessible (show below).

Steps to reproduce

Enable fcron in a fresh configuration on nixops with VirtualBox (I have not verified this behavior without nixops). The host will be created and started correctly but the fcron service will fail to start.

I've tracked this to the permissions on /var/spool being 700 rather than 755. I believe a simple fix would be to change these permissions alongside the install of the /var/spool/fcron directory in the fcron unit file but wanted to see if there wasn't a better solution first.

Is there a way to consistently ensure that the /var/spool directory has 755 permissions rather than (on the nixops VirtualBox machine anyway) 700? If not, I'll submit a pull request that adds the permission change but it doesn't feel like the best solution.

Technical details

Please run nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m" and paste the results.

warning: Nix search path entry ‘/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs’ does not exist, ignoring                                                                                                             
warning: Nix search path entry ‘/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels’ does not exist, ignoring                                                                                                                           
error: file ‘nixpkgs’ was not found in the Nix search path (add it using $NIX_PATH or -I), at (string):1:13
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