Let etckeeper monitor /var/spool/cron too

Question

etckeeper should log all config changes on a system. But there is one important setting that is outside of /etc/:

crontab -e edits a file inside: /var/spool/cron/ so there are important config files on the server.

How do I include those files to the git repository of etckeeper?

https://etckeeper.branchable.com/ seems to be the current code — icarus, Feb 10 '17 at 05:18
You could try this: https://serverfault.com/questions/211425/can-etckeeper-be-used-to-track-config-files-outside-of-etc — sourcejedi, Feb 27 '17 at 21:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 16 '18 at 09:43

The /var/spool/cron directory contains user's personal crontabs. This data is very different in nature from the system-wide configuration files in /etc. To allow etckeeper to handle these would be like monitoring all user's personal .bashrc files and pushing changes to a VCS, which seems rather intrusive.

The system's crontab files are all stored under /etc so these would be handled by etckeeper by default.

Let etckeeper monitor /var/spool/cron too

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