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

[Douglas J Hunley]

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ronnie gauthier spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> 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.

yeah. I just found out that you can put crontab-like entries here, and they 
automatically get read in by crond. what's the point of using this instead of 
/etc/crontab?
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Douglas J Hunley (doug at linux-sxs.org) - Linux User #174778
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