From: Christian Kastner Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:15:01 +0200 Subject: Debian-specific paths and features Use Debian-specific paths and features. For example, the spool dir differs from upstream, and we always build to use syslog. Forwarded: not-needed Last-Update: 2011-07-28 --- man/cron.8 | 15 ++------------- man/crontab.1 | 2 +- man/crontab.5 | 2 +- 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) --- a/man/cron.8 +++ b/man/cron.8 @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ .PP .I Cron searches -.I /var/spool/cron +.I /var/spool/cron/crontabs for crontab files which are named after user accounts; together with the system crontab .IR /etc/crontab , @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ .IR /etc/cron.d/ directory that contains system cronjobs stored for different users. .TP -.IR /var/spool/cron +.IR /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory that contains user crontables created by the .BR crontab (1) command. @@ -181,17 +181,6 @@ .TP .B "\-V" Print version and exit. -.SH SIGNALS -When the -.I SIGHUP -is received, the -.I Cron -daemon will close and reopen its log file. This proves to be useful in -scripts which rotate and age log files. Naturally, this is not relevant -if -.I Cron -was built to use -.IR syslog (3). .SH CLUSTERING SUPPORT In this version of .IR Cron --- a/man/crontab.1 +++ b/man/crontab.1 @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ In this version of .IR Cron it is possible to use a network-mounted shared -.I /var/spool/cron +.I /var/spool/cron/crontabs across a cluster of hosts and specify that only one of the hosts should run the crontab jobs in the particular directory at any one time. You may also use --- a/man/crontab.5 +++ b/man/crontab.5 @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ .SH FILES .I /etc/crontab main system crontab file. -.I /var/spool/cron/ +.I /var/spool/cron/crontabs a directory for storing crontabs defined by users. .I /etc/cron.d/ a directory for storing system crontabs.