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