Hi,

How are the cron jobs in (etc/cron.daily) executed? Are they executed alpabetically? Also, does the server do one cron job and wait til it finishes before it does the next cron job?

Thanks,

-dr

Hello,

How are the cron jobs in (etc/cron.daily) executed? Are they executed alpabetically?

Yes, they are executed alphabetically. The way I think it works is that the Apache server daemon checks the cron.daily and hourly folders and sees if there are any files. If they are they are executed.

Also, does the server do one cron job and wait til it finishes before it does the next cron job?

Yes, I think so. Because if it tries to do many things at the same time, the server load would raise and cause the server to crash.


I hope I answered your questions and helped you out.



Salam,
-Omair