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		mikemaccana on June 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A cron pitfall that will probably snare you at lea... Yes, it's not a bug in Vixie Cron (which I think BSD cron may use) but in the Linux distros (who are responsible for adding run-parts). .py, .pl, .sh and (as people realize they'are actually writing bash scripts) .bash are standards people actually use. Having them break in what amounts to an include dir is bad mojo.

cperciva on June 27, 2011 [–]

I can't speak for other BSDs, but FreeBSD's cron is still derived from Vixie cron.

RexRollman on June 27, 2011 | [–]

OpenBSD uses Vixie Cron as well.

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