[Bug 1762911] Re: crontab -l return 1 in absence of /var/spool/cron/crontabs/user

[Brian Murray]

** Project changed: apport => cron (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  crontab -l return 1 in absence of /var/spool/cron/crontabs/user

Status in cron package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  i guess it is rather a feature than a bug
  but it doesnot feel right
  $ crontab -l
  got "no crontab for $user" from stderr and a return code of 1
  if the file /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$user does not exist
  but if the file exists and is empty code 0 is returned
  by default that file does not exist so i think the error code doesn't make sense
  if "1" means error, the system should have that file created while creating user
  if "1" means not found, 1 should be returned when no jobs are found in the file

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