run-parts ignores jobs.deny

Question

I use run-parts to run all scripts under a directory,the same way crontab does. But the jobs deny and jobs allow don't block any of the scripts in the directory.

rajeevs@rajeev:/home/rajeevs/test$: ls
a
b
jobs.deny

$:cat jobs.deny
a
b

$:run-parts .
hello a
hello b

Any idea about this strange behavior?

Answer 1

Run-parts will ignore scripts with "." in their name. (Or at least, it did, when i last checked a few years ago)

Please see the man page (or the run-parts script itself) for details.