Bug 261000

Summary:	sys-process/cronbase - patch for run-crons to search /etc/cron.* recursively
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Allen Brooker (AllenJB) <gentoo-bugs>
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified	Assignee:	Cron Team <cron-bugs+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	pacho
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	169449
Attachments:	Patch to run-crons for recursive behaviour

Description Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2009-03-02 22:40:17 UTC

A fairly simple patch that runs cron scripts under /etc/cron.* recursively. For example, I use this to keep the webstats scripts (where there's one for each virtual host) in a seperate directory - eg. /etc/cron.daily/webstats/allenjb.me.uk.

Comment 1 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2009-03-02 22:40:59 UTC

Created attachment 183723 [details, diff]
Patch to run-crons for recursive behaviour

Comment 2 Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-05 21:37:07 UTC

Reassigning to cron herd.

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2015-07-21 09:39:34 UTC

i don't think this is a desirable feature, and i don't think any other distro or cron implementation supports this.  can you cite existing precedence here ?

keep in mind this current implementation can get hung up on infinite loops:
# cd /etc/cron.daily
# ln -s . oops