Re: [CentOS] Cron.Hourly

On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:55:00AM -0600, Matt wrote:

When I have multiple scripts in /etc/cron.hourly/ using noanacron do they all start at same time or sequentially? I would rather they all went at same time in case one takes close to an hour to complete.

Sequentially. This is accomplished by a line in /etc/cron.d like this:

01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly

and `run-parts` is a bash script which goes through in a loop (with logic to avoid certain filenames and to implement random delay, but not much else).

I think good practice is to only drop short-running scripts in that directory; longer jobs should get their own /etc/cron.d entries.