I believe this is done to not race with another periodic job. I.e. the
jobs in /etc/cron.daily should not be executed at the same time as
/etc/cron.weekly. See #23023 for a real-world example on this.
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Hi.
Currently the directories /etc/cron.{daily,hourly,monthly,weekly} are executed
like this:
17 ** * * rootcd / run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6* * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / run-parts
--report
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