Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For consistency's sake, we could mandate /etc/cron.d/hourly as well,
To be consistent, don't you mean /etc/cron.hourly/ ? Or do you mean that /etc/cron.d/hourly is the one-line crontab file that runs the script that runs scripts in /etc/cron.daily/ ? Or do you mean something else? > leaving /etc/cron.d for distribution-specific cron jobs. Perhaps, > while we're at it, standarddize on distro-specific stuff in /etc/cron.d, > leaving us with something that looks like I don't understand. Why leave /etc/cron.d for distribution-specific cron jobs? What if an ISV wants to run something with an unusual period? What we're trying to avoid is package installation editing of /etc/crontab. > 1. FHS/LSB standards in /etc/<period> > 2. Distribution specific cron jobs in /etc/cron.d > 3. Everything else in /var/spool/cron/crontabs What is the benefit of this? LSB and distribution packages will hopefully be handled by the same packaging system. - Dan
