On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:05 PM, Sélène <sel...@bsd.zplay.eu> wrote:

> Le 2014-04-09 00:48, czark...@gmail.com a écrit :
>
>  Remy said:
>>
>>> here is a simple patch to replace /etc/crontab by /etc/cron.d/.
>>>
>>
>> FWIW why?
>>
>
> I find it far easier to have multiples crontab files in /etc/cron.d/ than
> keeping a single crontab.
>
> At works, we are heavily using crontabs, and when we update our own apps
> on the servers, I need to check the changes needed for the app in the
> crontab. With a /etc/cron.d/my_app_1 file, I would just replace it with the
> new one, or I can even let the developers update their cron file, but I
> won't let them mess the global crontab (root or user).
>
> Of course, I can manage the crontab by hand because I don't modify it very
> often, but I find the cron.d easier.
>

And why not to use CFEngine, Puppet and similar for that?

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