https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243380
Bug ID: 243380
Summary: atrun(8) man page does not reflect cron.d change
Product: Documentation
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Many People
Priority: ---
Component: Manual Pages
Assignee: b...@freebsd.org
Reporter: andrew.daugher...@gmail.com
CC: d...@freebsd.org
I was upgrading a system from 11.2 to 12.1, and freebsd-update presented me
with a diff removing the /usr/libexec/atrun line from /etc/crontab. I wasn't
sure whether to accept this change, so I RTFM and see that atrun(8) still says:
====
The system crontab(5) file /etc/crontab must contain the line
*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
so atrun is invoked every five minutes.
====
This makes removing the line seem like an incorrect change; however, I looked
through the svn history of the crontab file and see that r318443 removed this
line and put it in /etc/cron.d/at instead.
The man page should be updated to reflect this, but I don't know what the best
wording is. Perhaps something like "The system crontab(5) segment
/etc/cron.d/at must contain the line"?
Additionally, crontab(5) does not mention cron.d at all. Would merging the
"Jobs in /etc/cron.d/" and "EXAMPLE OF A JOB IN /etc/cron.d/job" sections of
cronie's man page [1] be appropriate? It's clearly derived from the same Vixie
cron man page and is ISC-licensed.
[1] https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/blob/master/man/crontab.5
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