| crontab.1 (b9ff618c3af22fe5c13cc56ce9db940682bd173e) | crontab.1 (aaa66740bff6164c0f23ded738fcc202043b38a7) |
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| 1.\"/* Copyright 1988,1990,1993 by Paul Vixie 2.\" * All rights reserved 3.\" * 4.\" * Distribute freely, except: don't remove my name from the source or 5.\" * documentation (don't take credit for my work), mark your changes (don't 6.\" * get me blamed for your possible bugs), don't alter or remove this 7.\" * notice. May be sold if buildable source is provided to buyer. No 8.\" * warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this --- 26 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 35.Fl e 36} 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40utility is the program used to install, deinstall or list the tables 41used to drive the 42.Xr cron 8 | 1.\"/* Copyright 1988,1990,1993 by Paul Vixie 2.\" * All rights reserved 3.\" * 4.\" * Distribute freely, except: don't remove my name from the source or 5.\" * documentation (don't take credit for my work), mark your changes (don't 6.\" * get me blamed for your possible bugs), don't alter or remove this 7.\" * notice. May be sold if buildable source is provided to buyer. No 8.\" * warrantee of any kind, express or implied, is included with this --- 26 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 35.Fl e 36} 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40utility is the program used to install, deinstall or list the tables 41used to drive the 42.Xr cron 8 |
| 43daemon in Vixie Cron. Each user can have their own crontab, and though | 43daemon in Vixie Cron. 44Each user can have their own crontab, and though |
| 44these are files in 45.Pa /var , 46they are not intended to be edited directly. 47.Pp 48If the 49.Pa allow 50file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use | 45these are files in 46.Pa /var , 47they are not intended to be edited directly. 48.Pp 49If the 50.Pa allow 51file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use |
| 51this command. If the | 52this command. 53If the |
| 52.Pa allow 53file does not exist but the 54.Pa deny 55file does exist, then you must 56.Em not 57be listed in the 58.Pa deny | 54.Pa allow 55file does not exist but the 56.Pa deny 57file does exist, then you must 58.Em not 59be listed in the 60.Pa deny |
| 59file in order to use this command. If neither of these files exists, then | 61file in order to use this command. 62If neither of these files exists, then |
| 60depending on site-dependent configuration parameters, only the super user 61will be allowed to use this command, or all users will be able to use this 62command. 63The format of these files is one username per line, 64with no leading or trailing whitespace. 65Lines of other formats will be ignored, 66and so can be used for comments. 67.Pp 68The first form of this command is used to install a new crontab from some | 63depending on site-dependent configuration parameters, only the super user 64will be allowed to use this command, or all users will be able to use this 65command. 66The format of these files is one username per line, 67with no leading or trailing whitespace. 68Lines of other formats will be ignored, 69and so can be used for comments. 70.Pp 71The first form of this command is used to install a new crontab from some |
| 69named file or standard input if the pseudo-filename ``-'' is given. | 72named file or standard input if the pseudo-filename 73.Dq - 74is given. |
| 70.Pp 71The following options are available: 72.Bl -tag -width indent 73.It Fl u 74Specify the name of the user whose crontab is to be | 75.Pp 76The following options are available: 77.Bl -tag -width indent 78.It Fl u 79Specify the name of the user whose crontab is to be |
| 75tweaked. If this option is not given, | 80tweaked. 81If this option is not given, |
| 76.Nm | 82.Nm |
| 77examines "your" crontab, i.e., the crontab of the person executing the 78command. Note that | 83examines 84.Dq your 85crontab, i.e., the crontab of the person executing the 86command. 87Note that |
| 79.Xr su 1 80can confuse 81.Nm 82and that if you are running inside of 83.Xr su 1 84you should always use the 85.Fl u 86option for safety's sake. --- 27 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 114The 115.Nm 116command conforms to 117.St -p1003.2 118with the exception that the dangerous variant of calling 119.Nm 120without a file name in the first form of the command is not allowed by 121this implementation. | 88.Xr su 1 89can confuse 90.Nm 91and that if you are running inside of 92.Xr su 1 93you should always use the 94.Fl u 95option for safety's sake. --- 27 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 123The 124.Nm 125command conforms to 126.St -p1003.2 127with the exception that the dangerous variant of calling 128.Nm 129without a file name in the first form of the command is not allowed by 130this implementation. |
| 122The pseudo-filename ``-'' must be specified to read from standard input. | 131The pseudo-filename 132.Dq - 133must be specified to read from standard input. |
| 123The new command syntax 124differs from previous versions of Vixie Cron, as well as from the classic 125SVR3 syntax. 126.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 127A fairly informative usage message appears if you run it with a bad command 128line. 129.Sh AUTHORS 130.An Paul Vixie Aq paul@vix.com | 134The new command syntax 135differs from previous versions of Vixie Cron, as well as from the classic 136SVR3 syntax. 137.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 138A fairly informative usage message appears if you run it with a bad command 139line. 140.Sh AUTHORS 141.An Paul Vixie Aq paul@vix.com |