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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/cron/cron')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8 | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8 b/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8 index 8ad0622..31b579f 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8 @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ The .Nm utility then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each -command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When executing +command to see if it should be run in the current minute. +When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the .Ev MAILTO @@ -71,9 +72,11 @@ the modification time on has changed, and if it has, .Nm will then examine the modification time on all crontabs and reload those -which have changed. Thus +which have changed. +Thus .Nm -need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified. Note that the +need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified. +Note that the .Xr crontab 1 command updates the modification time of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab. |
