CRONTABS(4)

NAME
crontabs - configuration and scripts for running periodical jobs

SYNOPSIS
run-parts [--list|--test]<directory>

DESCRIPTION
Crontabs is historical name for run-parts script and system crontab. Run-parts runs all executables in the specified directory. The execution of files can be allowed or denied by creating file jobs.allow
 or jobs.deny which worked similar as other allow/deny config files. The file must be created in the specified directory.

--list
    print names of all files (not limited to executables), but don't run them. This option can't be used with test option.

--test
    print names of files, which would be run.

Historically the crontab file contained configuration which called run-parts on files in cron.{daily,weekly,monthly} directories. These jobs are now run indirectly through anacron to prevent conflicts between cron and anacron. That means the anacron package has to be installed if the jobs in these directories should be running. Refer to the anacron(8) how to limit the time of day of the job execution.

EXAMPLE
/etc/cron.daily/jobs.deny could contain for example 0logwatch which forbid execution of this script.

SEE ALSO
anacron(8), crontab(5)