Matt Stegman wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > I'm confused about cron on my souped up LM6.0 system. I have
> > a file /etc/crontab that contains this:
>
> > % cat /etc/crontab
[snip]
>
> > # run-parts
> this is a comment :)
> > 01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
> > 02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> > 22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
> > 42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
> cron jobs: the first says, on the first minute of every hour, every day,
> every month, every day of the week, run all the scripts in
> /etc/cron.hourly. The second says, on the second minute of the fourth
> hour of every day of every month, on every day of the week, run the
> scripts in /etc/cron.daily. And so on, and so forth.
>
> You know, this is detailed (maybe not so clearly) in crontab(3). All,
> except for the run-parts bit, which just runs every executable in a
> directory. I don't know if it's recursive or not.
Well, that was my real question: where's the documentation
for the "run-parts bit"...
>
> > how does this relate to the files in /var/spool/cron that
> > are created by crontab(1).
>
> I believe those are personal cron scripts, while these are system cron
> scripts.
And they work really well, even for root.
</RANT>
There's too much (un|poorly|obscurely) documented stuff in
Unix/Linix. THAT makes the transition from newbie to expert
take longer than it should. College students have the time
to poke around in it 20 hours per day, but the rest of us have
day jobs & kids...
<RANT>
Ron
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