what is run-parts in /etc/crontab, and how do I use it

Basically, takes a directory as an argument. It will run every script that is found in this directory. For example, if you do a listing of , you'll see that it's a directory where you can put executable files to be run every hour. As you can see, in it's used for convenience, since you only have to specify one directory and everything in that directory will be executed. This makes it easy to maintain scripts in one of the directories. See its manpage for more options that could be exploited for…