From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 13:40:04 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001821065672 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:40:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3CF08FC15 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:40:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o3LDe3gk066988 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id o3LDe3tq066980; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:40:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:40:03 GMT Message-Id: <201004211340.o3LDe3tq066980@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org From: "Julian H. Stacey" Cc: Subject: Re: bin/145912: trivial enhancement patch for man crontab X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Julian H. Stacey" List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:40:04 -0000 The following reply was made to PR docs/145912; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Julian H. Stacey" To: Garrett Cooper Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/145912: trivial enhancement patch for man crontab Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:38:11 +0200 > From: Garrett Cooper Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > >  .Bl -tag -width /var/cron/allow -compact > >  .It Pa /var/cron/allow > >  .It Pa /var/cron/deny > > + .It Pa /var/cron/tabs/{login_names} > > Should {login_names} be removed It cant be removed because it does not exist to remove, until after my send-pr is commited. > because of the potential ambiguity > that it introduces What ambiguity ? > and be better defined through a description like > with cron(8)? Dont know what you mean. > 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 It's a proposal for a one line change to a manual ! > 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. Yawn ! Add that comment to the send-pr if you want, pretty obvious. Any `customer' who cant figure what a one line diff to a manual does is a customer opinion I dont care about :-) > 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 mem- > ory. The cron utility also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a dif- > ferent format (see crontab(5)). If you want, feel free to submit a send-pr for some wider consolidation of documentation, perhaps to move some tect from man cron to man crontab. > [...] > > 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 Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text, Not HTML quoted-printable Base64 http://www.asciiribbon.org