[Bug 233874] cron should only read '*.conf' files in the cron.d directories.

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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:15:36 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233874

Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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         Resolution|---                         |Not Accepted
             Status|New                         |Closed
                 CC|                            |delphij@FreeBSD.org
           Assignee|bugs@FreeBSD.org            |delphij@FreeBSD.org

--- Comment #3 from Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> ---
Requiring `*.conf` is never a documented behavior and diverges from upstream
and major Linux distributions.

Are we installing crontab's with `.conf` extension?  It seems to be a major
disagreement with the naming convention required by LSB-Core-generic/sysinit
and even inconsistent with what the base system is using (which is similar to
what LSB have), so if we are doing it, it's probably a good time to stop doing
so and adopt something similar to the major Linux distributions, that is
basically [0-9A-Za-z_-]+.

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