Author: grog Date: Tue Sep 29 05:49:45 2020 New Revision: 366243 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366243
Log: Document the fact (bug?) that the -a option will normally process root's calendar files three times, once each for root, toor and daemon. This relates to bug 246943, but does not solve it. See discussion in bug report for more details. PR: 246943 Reported by: wcarson.bugzi...@disillusion.net Modified: head/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.1 Modified: head/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.1 ============================================================================== --- head/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.1 Tue Sep 29 05:08:45 2020 (r366242) +++ head/usr.bin/calendar/calendar.1 Tue Sep 29 05:49:45 2020 (r366243) @@ -70,9 +70,24 @@ Print lines from today and the next .Ar num days (forward, future). .It Fl a -Process the ``calendar'' files of all users and mail the results +Process the ``calendar'' files for users found in +.Pa /etc/passwd +and mail the results to them. -This requires super-user privileges. +This can result in multiple messages for specific files, since +.Pa /etc/passwd +does not require home directories to be unique. +In particular, by default +.Ar root , +.Ar toor +and +.Ar daemon +share the same home directory. +If this directory contains calendar information, +.Nm +will process the file three times. +.Pp +This option requires super-user privileges. .It Fl B Ar num Print lines from today and the previous .Ar num _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
