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authortrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2004-03-04 19:12:27 +0000
committertrhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2004-03-04 19:12:27 +0000
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Eliminate hard sentence breaks.
General markup fixes (use the .Dq macro).
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/cron')
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.127
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1 b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1
index 3b8afd0..cbfc73d 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1
+++ b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ The
utility is the program used to install, deinstall or list the tables
used to drive the
.Xr cron 8
-daemon in Vixie Cron. Each user can have their own crontab, and though
+daemon in Vixie Cron.
+Each user can have their own crontab, and though
these are files in
.Pa /var ,
they are not intended to be edited directly.
@@ -48,7 +49,8 @@ they are not intended to be edited directly.
If the
.Pa allow
file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use
-this command. If the
+this command.
+If the
.Pa allow
file does not exist but the
.Pa deny
@@ -56,7 +58,8 @@ file does exist, then you must
.Em not
be listed in the
.Pa deny
-file in order to use this command. If neither of these files exists, then
+file in order to use this command.
+If neither of these files exists, then
depending on site-dependent configuration parameters, only the super user
will be allowed to use this command, or all users will be able to use this
command.
@@ -66,16 +69,22 @@ Lines of other formats will be ignored,
and so can be used for comments.
.Pp
The first form of this command is used to install a new crontab from some
-named file or standard input if the pseudo-filename ``-'' is given.
+named file or standard input if the pseudo-filename
+.Dq -
+is given.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl u
Specify the name of the user whose crontab is to be
-tweaked. If this option is not given,
+tweaked.
+If this option is not given,
.Nm
-examines "your" crontab, i.e., the crontab of the person executing the
-command. Note that
+examines
+.Dq your
+crontab, i.e., the crontab of the person executing the
+command.
+Note that
.Xr su 1
can confuse
.Nm
@@ -119,7 +128,9 @@ 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 pseudo-filename
+.Dq -
+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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