261000 – sys-process/cronbase - patch for run-crons to search /etc/cron.* recursively

Bug 261000 - sys-process/cronbase - patch for run-crons to search /etc/cron.* recursively

Summary: sys-process/cronbase - patch for run-crons to search /etc/cron.* recursively

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Cron Team

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Blocks:	169449
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Reported:	2009-03-02 22:40 UTC by Allen Brooker (AllenJB)
Modified:	2015-07-21 09:39 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Patch to run-crons for recursive behaviour (run-crons-recursive.patch,819 bytes, patch) 2009-03-02 22:40 UTC, Allen Brooker (AllenJB)	Details \| Diff
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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