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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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> 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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