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diff --git a/libexec/crond/crond.8 b/libexec/crond/crond.8 deleted file mode 100644 index 71a4d2eef872..000000000000 --- a/libexec/crond/crond.8 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,56 +0,0 @@ -.\" $Header: /a/cvs/386BSD/src/libexec/crond/crond.8,v 1.1.1.1 1993/06/12 14:55:04 rgrimes Exp $ -.\" -.\"/* Copyright 1988,1990 by Paul Vixie -.\" * All rights reserved -.\" * -.\" * Distribute freely, except: don't remove my name from the source or -.\" * documentation (don't take credit for my work), mark your changes (don't -.\" * get me blamed for your possible bugs), don't alter or remove this -.\" * notice. May be sold if buildable source is provided to buyer. No -.\" * warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this -.\" * software; use at your own risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to -.\" * anyone resulting from the use of this software rests entirely with the -.\" * user. -.\" * -.\" * Send bug reports, bug fixes, enhancements, requests, flames, etc., and -.\" * I'll try to keep a version up to date. I can be reached as follows: -.\" * Paul Vixie, 329 Noe Street, San Francisco, CA, 94114, (415) 864-7013, -.\" * paul@vixie.sf.ca.us || {hoptoad,pacbell,decwrl,crash}!vixie!paul -.\" */ -.TH CROND 8 "15 Nov 1988" -.UC 4 -.SH NAME -crond \- daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron) -.SH SYNOPSIS -crond -.SH DESCRIPTION -.I Crond -should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, -so you don't need to start it with '&'. -.PP -.I Crond -searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in -/etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. -.I Crond -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 -commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user -named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists). -.PP -Additionally, -.I crond -checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime has changed, and -if it has, -.I crond -will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have -changed. Thus -.I crond -need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified. Note that the -.IR Crontab (1) -command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a -crontab. -.SH "SEE ALSO" -crontab(1), crontab(5) -.SH AUTHOR -.nf -Paul Vixie, paul@vixie.sf.ca.us |