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vixie-cron-4.1-9.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

--- vixie-cron-4.1-rh/cron.8.manpages	2004-07-21 10:16:43.000000000 -0400
+++ vixie-cron-4.1-rh/cron.8	2004-07-22 12:26:36.000000000 -0400
@@ -36,10 +36,11 @@
 starting it out of init.
 .PP
 .I Cron
-searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in
+searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in
 /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory.
 .I Cron
-also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see
+also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d directory,
+which are in a different format (see
 .IR crontab (5)).
 .I Cron
 then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each
--- vixie-cron-4.1-rh/crontab.1.manpages	2004-07-21 10:16:43.000000000 -0400
+++ vixie-cron-4.1-rh/crontab.1	2004-07-22 12:20:10.000000000 -0400
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@
 crontab(5), cron(8)
 .SH FILES
 .nf
-/var/cron/cron.allow
-/var/cron/cron.deny
+/etc/cron.allow
+/etc/cron.deny
 .fi
 .SH STANDARDS
 The
--- vixie-cron-4.1-rh/crontab.5.manpages	2004-07-21 10:16:43.000000000 -0400
+++ vixie-cron-4.1-rh/crontab.5	2004-07-22 12:32:07.000000000 -0400
@@ -86,8 +86,15 @@
 .I and
 when at least one of the two day fields (day of month, or day of week)
 match the current time (see ``Note'' below).
+Note that this means that non-existant times, such as "missing hours"
+during daylight savings conversion, will never match, causing jobs
+scheduled during the "missing times" not to be run.  Similarly, times
+that occur more than once (again, during daylight savings conversion)
+will cause matching jobs to be run twice.
+.PP
 .IR cron (8)
 examines cron entries once every minute.
+.PP
 The time and date fields are:
 .IP
 .ta 1.5i
@@ -101,7 +108,7 @@
 .br
 day of month	1-31
 .br
-month	0-12 (or names, see below)
+month	1-12 (or names, see below)
 .br
 day of week	0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
 .br
@@ -164,6 +171,9 @@
 23 0-23/2 * * * echo "run 23 minutes after midn, 2am, 4am ..., everyday"
 5 4 * * sun     echo "run at 5 after 4 every sunday"
 .fi
+.SH FILES
+/etc/crontab			System crontab file
+
 .SH SEE ALSO
 cron(8), crontab(1)
 .SH EXTENSIONS
--- vixie-cron-4.1-rh/FEATURES.manpages	2004-07-21 10:16:43.000000000 -0400
+++ vixie-cron-4.1-rh/FEATURES	2004-07-22 12:27:54.000000000 -0400
@@ -82,3 +82,8 @@
 	act this way and do the more reasonable thing, which is (IMHO) to "or"
 	the various field-matches together.  In that sense this cron may not
 	be completely similar to some AT&T crons.
+
+--	If it exists, the /etc/cron.d/ directory is parsed like the cron
+	spool directory, except that the files in it are not user-specific
+	and are therefore read with /etc/crontab syntax (the user is
+	specified explicitly in the 6th column).