cron.daily files

[Shawn Iverson]

That explains a lot.  Thanks!

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Kevin Miller <kevin.miller at juneau.org>
wrote:

> In the MailWatch list I recently posted that some scripts in cron.daily
> weren't running by the scheduler, but ran just fine from the CLI.  It turns
> out that Debian does not allow '.' in the filename of a cron job stored in
> /etc/cron.(d|daily|weekly|monthly).  It's actually a run-parts issue.
> From the run-parts man page:
>        If neither the --lsbsysinit option nor the --regex option is given
> then
>        the names must consist entirely of ASCII upper- and lower-case
> letters,
>        ASCII digits, ASCII underscores, and ASCII minus-hyphens.
>
> I don't think the MailScanner install script puts anything in the cron.X
> directories with "." in it, but in the ChangeLog file is the following
> entry:
>     Another good ruleset to add to your setup is
>     http://www.peregrinehw.com/downloads/SpamAssassin/contrib/KAM.cf
>     To download this automatically every night, fetch
>     http://www.mailscanner.info/files/4/KAM.cf.sh and put it in
> /etc/cron.daily
>     and make it executable (type "chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/KAM.cf.sh").
>
> If anyone is using Debian (or other distros that behave similarly) and the
> KAM ruleset you may want rename KAM.cf.sh, taking out the "."
> characters.  A new note in the Changelog might be in order as well.
>
> ...Kevin
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> Kevin Miller
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> 155 South Seward Street
> Juneau, Alaska 99801
> Phone: (907) 586-0242, Fax: (907) 586-4588 Registered Linux User No:
> 307357
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Shawn Iverson
Director of Technology
Rush County Schools
765-932-3901 x271
iversons at rushville.k12.in.us
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