Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:00:10 GMT From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/145912: trivial enhancement patch for man crontab Message-ID: <201004211300.o3LD0AcC032056@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>
To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/145912: trivial enhancement patch for man crontab
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:51:40 -0700
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:
>
...
> =A0.Bl -tag -width /var/cron/allow -compact
> =A0.It Pa /var/cron/allow
> =A0.It Pa /var/cron/deny
> + .It Pa /var/cron/tabs/{login_names}
Should {login_names} be removed because of the potential ambiguity
that it introduces and be better defined through a description like
with cron(8)? Also, there's no description of the proposed change in
the bug report, so for someone that's trying to figure out what this
change is doing from a customer perspective it would be nice if it
said something like 'add a reference noting where the default
installed crontabs are located', etc.
Finally, this documentation kind of duplicates what's already in cron(8=
):
The cron utility searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are
named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into me=
m-
ory. The cron utility also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a di=
f-
ferent format (see crontab(5)).
[...]
FILES
/etc/crontab System crontab file
/etc/pam.d/cron pam.conf(5) configuration file for cron
/var/cron/tabs Directory for personal crontab files
Thanks,
-Garrett
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