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
