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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 | 25 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 index e0eb764..ec3dd55 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 +++ b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5 @@ -86,7 +86,9 @@ may not. .Ev LOGNAME variable is sometimes called .Ev USER -on BSD systems... +on +.Bx +systems... On these systems, .Ev USER will be set also). @@ -223,20 +225,33 @@ MAILTO=paul .Xr cron 8 .Sh EXTENSIONS When specifying day of week, both day 0 and day 7 will be considered Sunday. -BSD and ATT seem to disagree about this. +.Bx +and +.Tn ATT +seem to disagree about this. .Pp Lists and ranges are allowed to co-exist in the same field. "1-3,7-9" would -be rejected by ATT or BSD cron -- they want to see "1-3" or "7,8,9" ONLY. +be rejected by +.Tn ATT +or +.Bx +cron -- they want to see "1-3" or "7,8,9" ONLY. .Pp Ranges can include "steps", so "1-9/2" is the same as "1,3,5,7,9". .Pp Names of months or days of the week can be specified by name. .Pp -Environment variables can be set in the crontab. In BSD or ATT, the +Environment variables can be set in the crontab. In +.Bx +or +.Tn ATT , +the environment handed to child processes is basically the one from .Pa /etc/rc . .Pp -Command output is mailed to the crontab owner (BSD can't do this), can be +Command output is mailed to the crontab owner +.No ( Bx +can't do this), can be mailed to a person other than the crontab owner (SysV can't do this), or the feature can be turned off and no mail will be sent at all (SysV can't do this either). |
