On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:56:51PM -0700, jeremy avnet wrote:
> Package: cron
> Version: 3.0pl1-87
> Severity: normal
>
> If you place a file in /etc/cron.d whose name contains a dot ('.'),
> the file will not be run. E.g., "some.name". That's expected behaviour. Notice that configuration files, when handled by dpkg, get renamed to XXXX.dpkg-dist or XXXX.dpkg-old when a new configuration file is shipped by the package and you either a) reject the package's new configuration file (in which case the new file is named XXXX.dpkg-dist) or b) accept the new file (in which case the old file is renamed XXXX.dpkg-old). If cron were to handle files with dots it would make it run twice cron jobs in /etc/cron.d after a package upgrade if the configuration file of the package was locally changed. I might try to look into this and see if I can get it to be more refined. But the current behaviour is actually quite standard in Debian. Regards Javier
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