RedHat also has /etc/cron.daily, /etc/cron/hourly, etc..
These are not part of cron - there are entries in /etc/crontab that
call out to any +x files in there.. I suspect debian's cron.d works the
same way..
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Mark Baker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:25:46AM -0700, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
>
> > Note that linux systems use two styles of crontabs. There is the per-user
> > crontabs that you can examine as root using the command
> >
> > crontab -l username
> >
> > But there is also /etc/crontab which specifies a user for running in the
> > crontab line. That is usually set to run various scripts.
>
> Debian also has an /etc/cron.d directory; any files in there are considered
> as though they were part of /etc/crontab. This allows packages to get cron
> to do things without having to do any nasty munging of /etc/crontab (which
> tends to cause problems as soon as anyone edits it by hand).
>
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