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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-09 11:02:01 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2001-03-09 11:02:01 +0000
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mdoc(7) police revision 1.15:
- replaced Oo/Oc enclosures with Op; - removed hard sentence breaks; - removed doubled space.
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-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.819
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8 b/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8
index 02d3aaf..da6b9d7 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8
@@ -25,12 +25,8 @@
.Nd daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
-.Oo
-.Fl s
-.Oc
-.Oo
-.Fl o
-.Oc
+.Op Fl s
+.Op Fl o
.Oo
.Fl x
.Ar debugflag Ns Op , Ns Ar ...
@@ -86,7 +82,8 @@ timezone changes, such as the switches between the standard time and
daylight saving time.
.Pp
The jobs run during the GMT offset changes time as
-intuitively expected. If a job falls into a time interval that disappears
+intuitively expected.
+If a job falls into a time interval that disappears
(for example, during the switch from
standard time) to daylight saving time or is
duplicated (for example, during the reverse switch), then it's handled
@@ -106,10 +103,12 @@ The second case is for the jobs that run less frequently.
They are executed exactly once, they are not skipped nor
executed twice (unless cron is restarted or the user's
.Xr crontab 5
-is changed during such a time interval). If an interval disappears
-due to the GMT offset change, such jobs are
+is changed during such a time interval).
+If an interval disappears
+due to the GMT offset change, such jobs are
executed at the same absolute point of time as they would be in the
-old time zone. For example, if exactly one hour disappears, this
+old time zone.
+For example, if exactly one hour disappears, this
point would be during the next hour at the first minute that is
specified for them in
.Xr crontab 5 .
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