From: Christian Kastner Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 23:57:47 +0100 Subject: Don't die on missing spool dir The daemon shouldn't just die when spool dir is missing, for example when /var/spool is being moved around. This a recoverable situation. Fix provided by Justin Pryzby . Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/470564 Forwarded: no Last-Update: 2015-12-25 --- database.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/database.c b/database.c index 8e49159..09f44a4 100644 --- a/database.c +++ b/database.c @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ load_database(old_db) */ if (stat(SPOOL_DIR, &statbuf) < OK) { log_it("CRON", getpid(), "STAT FAILED", SPOOL_DIR); - (void) exit(ERROR_EXIT); + statbuf.st_mtime = 0; } /* track system crontab file @@ -109,10 +109,9 @@ load_database(old_db) */ if (!(dir = opendir(SPOOL_DIR))) { log_it("CRON", getpid(), "OPENDIR FAILED", SPOOL_DIR); - (void) exit(ERROR_EXIT); } - while (NULL != (dp = readdir(dir))) { + while (dir != NULL && NULL != (dp = readdir(dir))) { char fname[MAXNAMLEN+1], tabname[PATH_MAX+1]; @@ -130,7 +129,8 @@ load_database(old_db) process_crontab(fname, fname, tabname, &statbuf, &new_db, old_db); } - closedir(dir); + if (dir) + closedir(dir); /* if we don't do this, then when our children eventually call * getpwnam() in do_command.c's child_process to verify MAILTO=,