CRONTABS(4) Crontabs users' Manual CRONTABS(4)NAMEcrontabs - configuration and scripts for running periodical jobs
SYNOPSIS
run-parts [--list|--test]<directory>
DESCRIPTION
Crontabs is historical name for run-parts script and system crontab.
Run-parts runs all executables in the specified directory. The execu‐
tion 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.
--list print names of all files (not limited to executables), but don't
run them. This option can't be used with test option.
--test print names of files, which would be run.
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 ALSOanacron(8), crontab(5)Marcela Mašláňová 2010-11-5 CRONTABS(4)
