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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:37:56 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-4.1-5
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Cc: "\"Jared Silva\"" <jayrod AT gmail DOT com>
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Jared Silva wrote
> Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>> Add support for the /etc/cron.d directory.
 >>   (with thanks to Thomas Berger)

> Can you please provide (or point to) a detailed explanation of the
> change and its impact?

cron also scans the /etc/cron.d directory and processes the crontab files within.
They must have the same format as /etc/crontab (i.e. include a user in each entry).
This is an extension of the posix mandated functionality of cron and it is
apparently expected by some packages. The advantage compared to adding entries
in /etc/crontab is that each file can specify its own environment variables.  
There is no impact on existing installations.

Pierre
 

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