Ubuntu Precise cron.daily issue

Question

I have a very strange problem. I've placed a script into /etc/cron.daily on my Ubuntu 12.04 server, gave it the appropriate permissions (0755), and assumed it would run correctly. I guess that was too much of an assumption.

The script name is as follows:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   801 Sep 16 16:24 ehcleanup.sh

When I run run-parts --test /etc/cron.daily it actually doesn't show up in the list:

/etc/cron.daily/apache2
/etc/cron.daily/apt
/etc/cron.daily/aptitude
/etc/cron.daily/dpkg
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
/etc/cron.daily/mlocate
/etc/cron.daily/passwd
/etc/cron.daily/standard

Am I on drugs, or is there something else that needs to be done to get this script to run?

Answer 1

man run-parts

The filenames must follow some rules. Remove the ".sh" and it will be ok.