on Friday 03/16/2007 Etaoin Shrdlu([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > 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).
And if I take the entries out of cron.d and put them into crontab they are executed correctly and this is why I asked the question. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list