On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:05, Sélène 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).

cat /etc/cron.d/* >> /etc/crontab

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