[CentOS] UC /etc/cron.d

[Rushton Martin]

>From man 8 cron

       Cron  searches  /var/spool/cron  for  crontab  files which are
named
       after accounts ...  Cron  also
       searches  for /etc/crontab and the files in the directory, which
are
       in a different format (see crontab(5) ).

So cron itself knows about /etc/cron.d and checks it.  No need to have
an
entry in /etc/crontab 


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-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Fajar Priyanto
Sent: 08 December 2011 08:31
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] /etc/cron.d

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Cliff Pratt <enkiduonthenet at gmail.com>
wrote:
> You can put a crontab file in there. Just don't alter any of the 
> others. Crond automatically runs everything in /etc/cron.d, in 
> /etc/crontab, and in user crontabs.
>

That's what I thought, but /etc/crontab only mention this:
# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

No /etc/cron.d
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