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

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> 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?

More modularized?

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