/etc/cron.d & NFS

From: M (non_at_email.non)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:49:02 -0700

Running Debian/unstable... I have a crontab file that I want to "execute"
from /etc/cron.d. I am attempting to put the file in /etc/cron.d as a
link, as the file resides in an NFS directory.

ln -s /nfsdir/cronfile /etc/cron.d/cronfile

does not work, but copying the file does (that is, the problem isn't in the
cronfile itself, it's being ignored when it's put in the /etc/cron.d
directory as a link).

Why?

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