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?
