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authorharti <harti@FreeBSD.org>2003-10-24 13:02:39 +0000
committerharti <harti@FreeBSD.org>2003-10-24 13:02:39 +0000
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Mention the fact that our crontab is not fully POSIX.2 conform, because
it doesn't allow the dangerous variant of calling it without any argument.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/cron')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.19
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1 b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1
index 32b0bb1..3b8afd0 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1
@@ -114,8 +114,13 @@ from the editor, the modified crontab will be installed automatically.
The
.Nm
command conforms to
-.St -p1003.2 .
-This new command syntax
+.St -p1003.2
+with the exception that the dangerous variant of calling
+.Nm
+without a file name in the first form of the command is not allowed by
+this implementation.
+The pseudo-filename ``-'' must be specified to read from standard input.
+The new command syntax
differs from previous versions of Vixie Cron, as well as from the classic
SVR3 syntax.
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