On Friday 16 March 2007 09:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:23:20 -0400, John covici wrote: > > Hi. I am using sys-process/vixie-cron-4.1-r9 and I have discovered > > that the files in /etc/cron.d are not being processed. Is this a > > known bug or does this version of cron not process that directory? > > cron only processes /etc/crontab and the user crontab files. The > hourly, daily, weekly and monthly directories are handled by entries > in crontab, but there is no such entry for cron.d - when would you > expect it's contents to be run?
It does work for me, as mentioned in the docs. The caveat is that entries have to be entered in /etc/crontab syntax (ie, with an explicit username). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
