[Kolab-devel] Solaris 10 Sparc Kolab V2.2.1 Beta 1 kolabd-2.2.1 error: Installing crontab entry

[Arendsen Hein, Thomas]

* Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> [20090107 21:03]:
> Quoting ComCept Soliva <soliva at comcept.ch>:
> >Within the the installation of the package another error occured:
> >
> ># /kolab/bin/openpkg rpm --force --nodeps -Uvh
> >/kolab/RPM/PKG/kolabd-2.2.1-20081212.sparc64-solaris10-kolab.rpm
> >Preparing...                ###########################################
> >[100%]
> >   1:kolabd                 ###########################################
> >[100%]
> >Installing crontab entry
> >crontab: illegal option -- u
> >crontab: proper usage is:
> >        crontab [file | -e | -l | -r ] [user]crontab:
> >proper usage is:
> >        crontab [file | -e | -l | -r ] [user]
> 
> I guess this is a bug. My crontab man page does not even list "-u" (though it actually works).
> 
> @thomas: Do you see a possibility to add some kind of workaround for this?

Yes, I think I'll remove the crontab handling in kolabd completely
and add to the upgrading docs that the crontab entry (if it exists)
should be removed.

I did not want to do that automatically because admins might have
added other stuff than kolabquotawarn here.

Thomas

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