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2.4 KiB
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70 lines
2.4 KiB
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From 07ed1e70e6bf64c815baccde938702084036db78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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From: =?utf-8?q?Marcela=20Ma=C5=A1l=C3=A1=C5=88ov=C3=A1?= <mmaslano@redhat.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:22:14 +0100
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Subject: [PATCH] Update manual for symlink.
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---
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man/cron.8 | 17 +++++++++--------
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man/crontab.5 | 17 +++++++++--------
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2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/man/cron.8 b/man/cron.8
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index 731896b..a80101a 100644
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--- a/man/cron.8
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+++ b/man/cron.8
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@@ -137,14 +137,15 @@ log file. This is useful in scripts which rotate and age log files.
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Naturally this is not relevant if cron was built to use
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.IR syslog (3).
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.SH CAVEATS
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-In this version of
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-.BR cron
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-, without the \fB-p\fP option,
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-.I /etc/crontab
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-must not be writable by any user other than root,
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-no crontab files may be links, or linked to by any other file,
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-and no crontab files may be executable, or be writable by any
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-user other than their owner.
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+The
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+.BR crontab
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+files have to be regular files or symlinks to regular files, they must not be executable
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+or writable by anyone else than the owner.
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+This requirement can be overridden by using the \fB-p\fP option on the crond command line.
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+If inotify support is in use changes in the symlinked crontabs are not automatically
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+noticed by the cron daemon. The cron daemon must receive a SIGHUP to reload the crontabs.
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+This is a limitation of inotify API.
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+
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.IR crontab (1),
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.IR crontab (5),
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diff --git a/man/crontab.5 b/man/crontab.5
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index 098b3b0..208daca 100644
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--- a/man/crontab.5
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+++ b/man/crontab.5
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@@ -272,14 +272,15 @@ the 5 initial time and date fields, and are prefixed by the '@' character:
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@hourly : Run once an hour, ie. "0 * * * *".
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.fi
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.SH CAVEATS
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-In this version of
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-.I cron
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-,
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-.I /etc/crontab
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-must not be writable by any user other than root.
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-No crontab files may be links, or linked to by any other file.
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-No crontab files may be executable, or be writable by any user
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-other than their owner.
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+The
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+.BR crontab
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+files have to be regular files or symlinks to regular files, they must not be executable
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+or writable by anyone else than the owner.
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+This requirement can be overridden by using the \fB-p\fP option on the crond command line.
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+If inotify support is in use changes in the symlinked crontabs are not automatically
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+noticed by the cron daemon. The cron daemon must receive a SIGHUP to reload the crontabs.
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+This is a limitation of inotify API.
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+
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.SH AUTHOR
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.nf
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Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
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--
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1.6.0.6
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