Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 20:31:48 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: format of /etc/crontab? Message-ID: <20030704013148.GE24527@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <p05200f46bb2a5721bf2b@[192.168.254.205]> References: <p05200f42bb2a44de7749@[192.168.254.205]> <20030703212325.GA5665@mail.it.ca> <p05200f46bb2a5721bf2b@[192.168.254.205]>
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In the last episode (Jul 03), Rich Morin said:
> None, in the file itself, but the crontab(5) man page should be tweaked.
> I have posted the following suggestion (to freebsd-doc@freebsd.org):
>
> The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be ...
> ---
> In the case of /etc/crontab, another field (username) follows the time
> and date fields. This is normally set to root, but other names can be
> specified; the command will be setuid(2) to the corresponding uid.
>
> The ``final'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be ...
>
> The user shouldn't be required to spot the added "who" field in the comment,
> let alone read the source code to determine that no other format changes
> have been made. The man pages promise to (and should) describe any format
> differences.
It already does, a couple paragraphs above the stuff you quoted:
The format of a cron command is very much the V7 standard, with a number
of upward-compatible extensions. Each line has five time and date
fields, followed by a user name (with optional ``:<group>'' and
``/<login-class>'' suffixes) if this is the system crontab file, followed
by a command.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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