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From:	James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc:	John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored
Date:	Fri, 16 Mar 2007 23:17:05
Message-Id:	`m3k5xgolfz.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] /etc/cron.d being ignored by John covici

1	>>>>> "John" == John covici <covici@××××××××××.com> writes:
2
3	John> Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have
4	John> discovered that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being
5	John> processed. Is this a known bug or does this version of
6	John> cron not process that directory?
7
8	Paul (Vixie) added code some time back to ignore any files that
9	are not owned by root with 0600 perms. (That also applies to
10	/etc/crontab, IIRC.)
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12	I don't beleive the ebuild patches that out.
13
14	If that is the issue, it will show up in syslog.
15
16	-JimC (who didn't much like that change :-)
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