On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Reindl Harald wrote: > jesus christ crond does not need a hint in the crontab to > know that he has to enumerate /etc/cron.d If you're in a bad mood, don't take it out on people on the list. > the same all other software working with /etc/anything.d/ does > not need to ne configured to do that This isn't true in the slightest. In fact, I think on balance more tools have it configured than have it hard coded. xinetd.conf: includedir /etc/xinetd.d httpd.conf: Include conf.d/*.conf ld.so.conf: include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf logrotate.conf: include /etc/logrotate.d oddjobd.conf: <include ignore_missing="yes">/etc/oddjobd.conf.d/*.conf</include> prelink.conf: -c /etc/prelink.conf.d/*.conf profile.conf: for i in /etc/profile.d/*.sh ; do If you're going to act like an all knowing authority, be one. jh