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

[Joel Hammer]

Here is what I have in my /etc/cron.d

drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         1024 Jul  8  2000 .
drwxr-xr-x  43 root     root         4096 Jan 14 03:13 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul  8  2000 Daily
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul  8  2000 Hourly
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug  1  1997 Monthly
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Aug  1  1997 Weekly
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jun 22  2002 lib       

And, in Daily:

drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root         1024 Jul  8  2000 .
drwxr-xr-x   7 root     root         1024 Jul  8  2000 ..
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           15 Jan 11  2002 40cleandir -> ../lib/cleandir
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           16 Jan 11  2002 40logrotate -> ../lib/logrotate
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           16 Jan 11  2002 42inn-daily -> ../lib/inn-daily
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Jan 11  2002 45makewhatis -> ../lib/makewhatis
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           16 Jan 11  2002 45webalizer -> ../lib/webalizer
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           22 Jan 11  2002 50update-locatedb -> ../lib/update-locatedb    

So, is seems important, at least for my Caldera 2.4 system.

Joel

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:59:38PM -0300, Federico Voges wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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.
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> Also, it can be a "left over" from some package you installed.
> 
> Just my $ 0.015 ;)
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> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 09:22:43 -0500, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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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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