From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 13 03:22:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B5C1065672 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:22:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd8@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90A628FC16 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.10.3] ([202.69.173.216]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:22:38 -0700 Message-ID: <4C3BDBFA.2080104@a1poweruser.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:22:34 +0800 From: Fbsd8 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jul 2010 03:22:38.0524 (UTC) FILETIME=[A53347C0:01CB223A] X-Sender: fbsd8@a1poweruser.com Cc: Subject: cron_flags in jails rc.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 03:22:40 -0000 I found this statement in the rc.conf file of a jail. cron_flags="$cron_flags -J 15" I checked the cron manpage and found info on this. The -J 15 is the range cron is to sleep before launching the cron jobs for the superuser. The -j option does the same thing for non-superuser jobs. Looking at the system's /etc/crontab file are those superuser jobs? Also is the above rc.conf statement coded correctly?