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diff --git a/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man8/cron.8 b/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man8/cron.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1286ed56 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man8/cron.8 @@ -0,0 +1,285 @@ +.\"/* Copyright 1988,1990,1993,1996 by Paul Vixie +.\" * All rights reserved +.\" */ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 2004 by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC") +.\" Copyright (c) 1997,2000 by Internet Software Consortium, Inc. +.\" +.\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any +.\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above +.\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. +.\" +.\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ISC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES +.\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL ISC BE LIABLE FOR +.\" ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES +.\" WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN +.\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT +.\" OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. +.\" +.\" Modified 2010/09/12 by Colin Dean, Durham University IT Service, +.\" to add clustering support. +.\" +.\" $Id: cron.8,v 1.8 2004/01/23 19:03:32 vixie Exp $ +.\" +.TH CRON "8" "2013-09-26" "cronie" "System Administration" +.SH NAME +crond \- daemon to execute scheduled commands +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B crond +.RB [ -c " | " -h " | " -i " | " -n " | " -p " | " -P " | " -s " | " -m \fP\fI<mail command>\fP ] +.br +.B crond +.B -x +.RB [ext,sch,proc,pars,load,misc,test,bit] +.br +.B crond +.B -V +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Cron +is started from +.I /etc/rc.d/init.d +or +.I /etc/init.d +when classical sysvinit scripts are used. In case systemd is enabled, then unit file is installed into +.I /lib/systemd/system/crond.service +and daemon is started by +.I systemctl start crond.service +command. It returns immediately, thus, there is no need to need to start it with +the '&' parameter. +.PP +.I Cron +searches +.I /var/spool/cron +for crontab files which are named after accounts in +.I /etc/passwd; +The found crontabs are loaded into the memory. +.I Cron +also searches for +.I /etc/anacrontab +and any files in the +.I /etc/cron.d +directory, which have a different format (see +.BR crontab (5)). +.I Cron +examines all stored crontabs and checks each job to see if it needs to be +run in the current minute. When executing commands, any output is mailed +to the owner of the crontab (or to the user specified in the +.I MAILTO +environment variable in the crontab, if such exists). Any job output can +also be sent to syslog by using the +.B "\-s" +option. +.PP +There are two ways how changes in crontables are checked. The first +method is checking the modtime of a file. The second method is using the +inotify support. Using of inotify is logged in the +.I /var/log/cron +log after the daemon is started. The inotify support checks for changes +in all crontables and accesses the hard disk only when a change is +detected. +.PP +When using the modtime option, +.I Cron +checks its crontables' modtimes every minute to check for any changes and +reloads the crontables which have changed. There is no need to restart +.I Cron +after some of the crontables were modified. The modtime option is also +used when inotify can not be initialized. +.PP +.I Cron +checks these files and directories: +.TP +.IR /etc/crontab +system crontab. Nowadays the file is empty by default. Originally it +was usually used to run daily, weekly, monthly jobs. By default these +jobs are now run through anacron which reads +.IR /etc/anacrontab +configuration file. See +.BR anacrontab (5) +for more details. +.TP +.IR /etc/cron.d/ +directory that contains system cronjobs stored for different users. +.TP +.IR /var/spool/cron +directory that contains user crontables created by the +.IR crontab +command. +.PP +Note that the +.BR crontab (1) +command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a +crontab. +.PP +.SS Daylight Saving Time and other time changes +Local time changes of less than three hours, such as those caused by the +Daylight Saving Time changes, are handled in a special way. This only +applies to jobs that run at a specific time and jobs that run with a +granularity greater than one hour. Jobs that run more frequently are +scheduled normally. +.PP +If time was adjusted one hour forward, those jobs that would have run in +the interval that has been skipped will be run immediately. Conversely, +if time was adjusted backward, running the same job twice is avoided. +.PP +Time changes of more than 3 hours are considered to be corrections to the +clock or the timezone, and the new time is used immediately. +.PP +It is possible to use different time zones for crontables. See +.BR crontab (5) +for more information. +.SS PAM Access Control +.IR Cron +supports access control with PAM if the system has PAM installed. For +more information, see +.BR pam (8). +A PAM configuration file for +.IR crond +is installed in +.IR /etc/pam.d/crond . +The daemon loads the PAM environment from the pam_env module. This can +be overridden by defining specific settings in the appropriate crontab +file. +.SH "OPTIONS" +.TP +.B "\-h" +Prints a help message and exits. +.TP +.B "\-i" +Disables inotify support. +.TP +.B "\-m" +This option allows you to specify a shell command to use for sending +.I Cron +mail output instead of using +.BR sendmail (8) +This command must accept a fully formatted mail message (with headers) on +standard input and send it as a mail message to the recipients specified +in the mail headers. Specifying the string +.I "off" +(i.e., crond -m off) +will disable the sending of mail. +.TP +.B "\-n" +Tells the daemon to run in the foreground. This can be useful when +starting it out of init. With this option is needed to change pam setting. +.I /etc/pam.d/crond +must not enable +.I pam_loginuid.so +module. +.TP +.B "\-f" +the same as -n, consistent with other crond implementations. +.TP +.B "\-p" +Allows +.I Cron +to accept any user set crontables. +.TP +.B "\-P" +Don't set PATH. PATH is instead inherited from the environment. +.TP +.B "\-c" +This option enables clustering support, as described below. +.TP +.B "\-s" +This option will direct +.I Cron +to send the job output to the system log using +.BR syslog (3). +This is useful if your system does not have +.BR sendmail (8) +installed or if mail is disabled. +.TP +.B "\-x" +This option allows you to set debug flags. +.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 +it is possible to use a network-mounted shared +.I /var/spool/cron +across a cluster of hosts and specify that only one of the hosts should +run the crontab jobs in this directory at any one time. This is done by +starting +.I Cron +with the +.B \-c +option, and have the +.I /var/spool/cron/.cron.hostname +file contain just one line, which represents the hostname of whichever +host in the cluster should run the jobs. If this file does not exist, or +the hostname in it does not match that returned by +.BR gethostname (2), +then all crontab files in this directory are ignored. This has no effect +on cron jobs specified in the +.I /etc/crontab +file or on files in the +.I /etc/cron.d +directory. These files are always run and considered host-specific. +.PP +Rather than editing +.I /var/spool/cron/.cron.hostname +directly, use the +.B \-n +option of +.BR crontab (1) +to specify the host. +.PP +You should ensure that all hosts in a cluster, and the file server from +which they mount the shared crontab directory, have closely synchronised +clocks, e.g., using +.BR ntpd (8), +otherwise the results will be very unpredictable. +.PP +Using cluster sharing automatically disables inotify support, because +inotify cannot be relied on with network-mounted shared file systems. +.SH CAVEATS +All +.BR crontab +files have to be regular files or symlinks to regular files, they must +not be executable or writable for anyone else but the owner. This +requirement can be overridden by using the +.B \-p +option on the crond command line. If inotify support is in use, changes +in the symlinked crontabs are not automatically noticed by the cron +daemon. The cron daemon must receive a SIGHUP signal to reload the +crontabs. This is a limitation of the inotify API. +.PP +The syslog output will be used instead of mail, when sendmail is not +installed. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR crontab (1), +.BR crontab (5), +.BR inotify (7), +.BR pam (8) +.SH AUTHOR +.MT vixie@isc.org +Paul Vixie +.ME +.br +.MT mmaslano@redhat.com +Marcela Mašláňová +.ME +.br +.MT colin@colin-dean.org +Colin Dean +.ME +.br +.MT tmraz@fedoraproject.org +Tomáš Mráz +.ME |