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

[ronnie gauthier]

Its for cron jobs that dont fit into the periodic folders, say every five
minutes or bi-weekly. Also you can use regular crontab syntax, the periodics
should only contain shell scripts. You can add shell scripts to the periodics
without having to worry about restarting cron. You also have a /var/spool/cron
where cron stores users jobs done via crontab -e as /var/spool/cron/username.
Distros handle the various calls with different scripts but the above holds
true for linux and Unix AFAIK.


On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:22:43 -0500 - Douglas J Hunley <doug at hunley.homeip.net>
wrote the following
Re: what's the point of /etc/cron.d?

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>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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