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Re: cron




On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Aviram Jenik wrote:

> under /etc there are a few directories called:
> cron.daily
> cron.hourly
> cron.monthly

it seems like the crontab that comes with redhat contains this extention.
actually, these files on their own area meaningless. cron simply looks for
entries in the file /etc/crontab extra cron job entries to those that
exist in /var/spool/cron/ and /var/spool/at/ .  read the file in
/etc/crontab, and the mistry will be solved (notice the run-parts shell
script invoked from there, and the comment on its top:

run-parts - concept taken from Debian

guy