On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri at arinet.org> wrote: > 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 > That's because crond already knows to look at /etc/crontab, /etc/cron.d and user cron tabs. It's hard coded. Cheers, Cliff