what's the point of /etc/cron.d?

[Federico Voges]

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Hi,

Some distros have /etc/cron.d and inside that dir Hourly, Daily, etc. 

Are there any symlinks inside your cron.d (to cron.*). If so, it can be
there for compatibility.

Also, it can be a "left over" from some package you installed.

Just my $ 0.015 ;)

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:22:43 -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote:

>I mean really.. I have /etc/cron.daily, cron.weekly, cron.monthly, and 
>cron.hourly. so what's with cron.d?
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