>>>>> "John" == John covici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

John> Hi.  I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have
John> discovered that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being
John> processed.  Is this a known bug or does this version of
John> cron not process that directory?

Paul (Vixie) added code some time back to ignore any files that
are not owned by root with 0600 perms.  (That also applies to
/etc/crontab, IIRC.)

I don't beleive the ebuild patches that out.

If that is the issue, it will show up in syslog.

-JimC (who didn't much like that change :-)
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