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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Thursday 08 July 2004 9:45 pm, Eric Womack wrote:
> I'm feeling this out first before filing a bug...
>
> At the end of the compile log for fcron I get:
>
> ----------
>
> ./script/boot-install "/bin/install -c -o root" /sbin 0 /var/spool/fcron 0
> . ./script/boot-install: line 57: test: : integer expression expected
>
> Fcron should be started by your init scripts.
> The installation process is going to try to install fcron in them.
>
> Note that if you answer no to a proposition made at this point by
> the installation script, it will try to propose another way to do it.
> (if there are several possibilities, a list will be printed before each
> action)
>
> If you answer no to all the propositions of the script, or if the script
> fails, a message will be printed telling you what you should do manually.
>
>
> The script proposes the following location to do it :
>   /etc/init.d/fcron
>
>
> Installation process failed to install fcron in your init scripts :
> please do it manually.
>
> You should now stop the old version of fcron and start the new one.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/fcron-2.9.4'
>
> ----------
>
> Is this normal?  The install does not fail, but fcron does not start.
>
> Ideas?

It looks like those lines are coming from the the supplied Makefile.  I may 
be 
wrong, but it appears to be making a couple of invalid assumptions about 
whether fcrontabs is installed or not and the system's installed init system.

The first part is a failed test when checking for an old version of 
fcrontabs.  
I think there is a previous test that should be failing and the code that is 
causing the error you (and I) are getting should never even be run, but I 
didn't investigate it that closely.

The remaining part is regarding the supplied init script.  Since we are 
supplying our own init script, that part is probably not hurting anything.

I suppose someone could clean up the Makefile for those two areas, but then 
we 
are modifying the author's source...

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