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

[Ken Moffat]

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?
>  
>
When I installed a deb of exim on libranet it installed a file in cron.d 
called exim that runs the mailer every 15 minutes and tidies things up 
in the morning. Before that install /etc/cron.d was empty.

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