CRONTABS
Section: Crontabs users' Manual (4)
Updated: 2009-06-16
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NAME
crontabs - configuration and scripts for running periodical jobs
SYNOPSIS
run-parts <directory>
DESCRIPTION
Crontabs is historical name for
run-parts
script and system crontab.
Run-parts
runs all executables in the specified directory. The execution of files
can be allowed or denied by creating file
jobs.allow
or
jobs.deny
which worked similar as other allow/deny config files. The file must be
created in the specified directory.
Historically the crontab file contained configuration which called
run-parts
on files in
cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}
directories. These jobs are now run
indirectly through
anacron
to prevent conflicts between
cron
and
anacron.
That means the
anacron
package has to be installed if the jobs in these
directories should be running. Refer to the
anacron(8)
how to limit the time of day of the job execution.
EXAMPLE
/etc/cron.daily/jobs.deny
could contain for example
0logwatch
which forbid execution of this script.
SEE ALSO
anacron(8), crontab(5)