cronie: useless (?) error message in logcat

[jer194]

Problem description
When running termux crond (from cronie), logcat shows this every minute:

02-26 19:00:01.663 30231 30231 E crond   : (CRON) STAT FAILED (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/cron.d): No such file or directory
02-26 19:00:01.663 30231 30231 E crond   : (CRON) OPENDIR FAILED (/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/cron.d): No such file or directory

cron itself works, using entries entered via crontab.

Steps to reproduce

• run crond
• check logcat

Expected behavior
Remove those logcat error logs; they seem to be useless / misleading

Additional information

@jflte:~/ termux-info
Packages CPU architecture:
arm
Subscribed repositories:
# sources.list
deb https://termux.org/packages/ stable main
# game-repo (sources.list.d/game.list)
deb https://grimler.se/game-packages-24 games stable
# science-repo (sources.list.d/science.list)
deb https://grimler.se/science-packages-24 science stable
Updatable packages:
All packages up to date
Android version:
9
Kernel build information:
Linux jflte 3.4.112 #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Feb 7 11:42:26 CET 2021 armv7l Android
Device manufacturer:
Samsung
Device model:
GT-I9505

[ghost]

Wontfix. Package customization requests are not accepted.

It informs that directory /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/cron.d is not available. If this message is useless for you, then just don't read it.

[Grimler91]

@jer194 have you tried manually creating the directory?

[jer194]

@Grimler91:
I did that now: mkdir /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/cron.d

And indeed, the error logs are gone.

But: that's in /usr/, and I don't think users should mess around there.
Furthermore, isn't it easy to fix on installation of cronie (to create that directory)?
Anyway, I agree that's minor, and I can ignore it, now that I know.
For sure there are more serious things to fix.

(Still my attitude would be different, and I'd fix it, if I could: other people might wonder as well,
and piling up such things makes it more and more difficult to spot real problems).

And actually, isnt it trivial to fix?
https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/blob/master/packages/cronie/build.sh

termux_step_create_debscripts() {
	cat <<- EOF > ./postinst
	#!$TERMUX_PREFIX/bin/sh
	mkdir -p $TERMUX_PREFIX/var/run
	mkdir -p $TERMUX_PREFIX/var/spool/cron
        mkdir -p $TERMUX_PREFIX/etc/cron.d   # add this
	EOF
}

I have submitted the patch here:
master...jer194:patch-1

(my first such thing ...)

[xtkoba]

Already fixed.