svn commit: r235048 - stable/8/usr.sbin/cron/crontab

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Sat May 5 02:53:03 UTC 2012


Author: gjb (doc committer)
Date: Sat May  5 02:53:02 2012
New Revision: 235048
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/235048

Log:
  MFC r234775:
  
  As cron(8) is started with '-s' by default, timezones that observe
  DST should not need to worry about scheduling jobs when the DST time
  changes.
  
  Rather than removing the BUGS section in crontab(5) regarding this,
  note that disabling '-s' may still cause jobs to be executed twice or
  not at all.
  
  PR:		166318

Modified:
  stable/8/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5	Sat May  5 02:52:41 2012	(r235047)
+++ stable/8/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.5	Sat May  5 02:53:02 2012	(r235048)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd January 28, 2012
+.Dd April 28, 2012
 .Dt CRONTAB 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -296,10 +296,21 @@ are extensions.
 .An Paul Vixie Aq paul at vix.com
 .Sh BUGS
 If you are in one of the 70-odd countries that observe Daylight
-Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance will be
-affected.
+Savings Time, jobs scheduled during the rollback or advance may be
+affected if
+.Xr cron 8
+is not started with the
+.Fl s
+flag.
 In general, it is not a good idea to schedule jobs during
-this period.
+this period if
+.Xr cron 8
+is not started with the
+.Fl s
+flag, which is enabled by default.
+See
+.Xr cron 8
+for more details.
 .Pp
 For US timezones (except parts of AZ and HI) the time shift occurs at
 2AM local time.


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