On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:14:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:08:43PM +0200, Jon Haugsand wrote: | > RedHat has the directory /etc/cron.hourly, but this is not present in | > debian. Why is that? | | Probably because the main motivation for /etc/cron.<interval>, as I | understand it, is to make it possible to include crontab fragments in | packages,
No, that's what cron.d is for.
| and it seems rare for a package to want an hourly crontab.
| Certainly it has benefits for users as well, but users can always use
| /etc/crontab or 'crontab -e'; packages have to have separate files.
The cron.<interval> directories are for anacron. anacron is intended
for systems that aren't always on. If your system is mostly off, then
how is it supposed to run a job every hour? However, for such a
system, "daily" isn't so unreasonable.
If you want a job run hourly, use /etc/crontab or a file in
/etc/cron.d and use the "@hourly" designator.
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