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on Friday 03/16/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu(shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org) wrote |
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> On Friday 16 March 2007 09:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:23:20 -0400, John covici wrote: |
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> > > Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered |
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> > > that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being processed. Is this a |
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> > > known bug or does this version of cron not process that directory? |
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> > |
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> > cron only processes /etc/crontab and the user crontab files. The |
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> > hourly, daily, weekly and monthly directories are handled by entries |
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> > in crontab, but there is no such entry for cron.d - when would you |
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> > expect it's contents to be run? |
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> It does work for me, as mentioned in the docs. The caveat is that entries |
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> have to be entered in /etc/crontab syntax (ie, with an explicit |
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> username). |
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And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they |
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are executed correctly and this is why I asked the question. |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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