cron doesn't run /etc/cron.d jobs why is that ?

[Maxim Vexler <hq4ever@gmail.com>]

Hello list,

For some reason, jobs defined in /etc/cron.d doesn't get picked up by
cron, while jobs from /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} do !

I have verified this by putting the following commands in /etc/cron:

$ apt-show-versions cron
cron/testing uptodate 3.0pl1-92
$ ps aux  | grep cron
root      1569  0.0  0.1   1880   948 ?        Ss   12:00   0:00 /usr/sbin/cron

$ ls -la /etc/cron.d/testcron
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root 67 2005-12-25 13:47 /etc/cron.d/testcron

$ cat /etc/cron.d/testcron
*/1  * * * *  root echo $(date "+%H%M%S") > /tmp/LastRunBy_cron.d

$ ls -la /etc/cron.hourly/testcron
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 281 2005-12-25 13:45 /etc/cron.hourly/testcron

$ cat /etc/cron.hourly/testcron
#!/bin/sh
echo $(date "+%H%M%S") > /tmp/LastRunBY_cron.hourly


I have also tried to touched /etc/crontab and even did a reboot to the system.

After letting it run for 3 hours, here is the output :

$ ls /tmp/Last*
/tmp/LastRunBY_cron.hourly
$ cat /tmp/LastRunBY_cron.hourly
171701
$

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Cheers,
Maxim Vexler (hq4ever).

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