About all I can see there is like Llama said. You can keep things a bit more orderly. Also, crontab is a single file, you can throw as many files as you want into cron.d, I have not tried it but I think that you can probably throw a shell script in there too.
On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:48:56 -0500 - Douglas J Hunley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the following Re: Re: what's the point of /etc/cron.d? >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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? >- -- >Douglas J Hunley (doug at linux-sxs.org) - Linux User #174778 >Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org > and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org > >So these 3 guys walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would have ducked... >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQE+JYLo2MO5UukaubkRAq1aAKCMot1AaDSBFz7+a0iRid7ENXKLIgCfeLgW >ymKH8KzEwl8prQArfBtIdQk= >=Dj1I >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >_______________________________________________ >Linux-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> >http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
