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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
