Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 14:50:38 -0700 (PDT) From: platanthera <platanthera@web.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/66963: [patch] handbook - a note on /etc/crontab Message-ID: <200405202150.i4KLocKR089597@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200405202200.i4KM0c2K050648@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 66963
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [patch] handbook - a note on /etc/crontab
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Thu May 20 15:00:37 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: platanthera
>Release: 5.2.1 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
6.6.1 Installing a Crontab
To install your freshly written crontab, just use the crontab utility. The most common usage is:
# crontab crontab
Apparently quite a number of users try to apply this approach to /etc/crontab. Therefore it should be explicitly warned not to do this. (I know that it's already in the FAQ)
>How-To-Repeat:
read freebsd-users@ for some days
>Fix:
patch for doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config/chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml.old Tue May 4 22:51:58 2004
+++ chapter.sgml Thu May 20 23:16:56 2004
@@ -549,6 +549,17 @@
with an empty file. When the file is saved, it will be
automatically installed by the <command>crontab</command> command.
</para>
+
+
+ <note>
+ <para>Changes in <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> are picked up by
+ <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cron</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry> automatically. Do NOT try to use <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>crontab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+ to update the system crontab, in the
+ <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#ROOT-NOT-FOUND-CRON-ERRORS">;
+ FAQ</ulink> there's an explanation why this doesn't work.</para>
+ </note>
</sect2>
</sect1>
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