https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234504
Bug ID: 234504
Summary: cron(8) manual content error
Product: Base System
Version: 12.0-RELEASE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: conf
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
The last sentence of the second paragraph under the Description heading of
cron(8)says.
"The cron utility also searches for /etc/crontab and files in /etc/cron.d and
/usr/local/etc/cron.d which are in a different format (see crontab(5))."
On review of crontab(5) there is no mention of a "different" format for those 2
paths, IE: /etc/cron.d and /usr/local/etc/cron.d
I think the second paragraph needs to be rewritten to clarify to the reader
exactly what the cron utility is expecting as a control file.
The following is my draft of what it should say.
The cron utility uses a file formatted as defined by crontab(5) to control it's
actions. The host system default is /etc/crontab which should not be changed.
Additional crontab(5) defined files with unique file names may be placed in
/etc/cron.d or /usr/local/etc/cron.d also /var/cron/tabs may contain files
named after accounts in the /etc/passwd file as documented in crontab(1). File
content read from these path locations are merged together and loaded into
memory for use by the cron utility.
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