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Automatic deployment of crontab configuration
Linux distributions provide a convenient way to automatically deploy new crontab jobs while installing a new software package or using centralized configuration management systems like Puppet or Chef. You simply drop a properly formatted crontab configuration file in directory /etc/cron.d/, and the running crontab scheduler process will automatically read the new file and configure jobs specified in it.