cron_flags in jails rc.conf

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Tue Jul 13 05:38:47 UTC 2010


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> I found this statement in the rc.conf file of a jail.
> cron_flags="$cron_flags -J 15"
>
> I checked the cron manpage and found info on this.
>
> The -J 15 is the range cron is to sleep before launching the cron jobs for
> the superuser.  The -j option does the same thing for non-superuser jobs.
>
> Looking at the system's /etc/crontab file are those superuser jobs?
>

Yes

Also is the above rc.conf statement coded correctly?
>

can't to say without seeing what $cron_flags was set to, but mostly likely
yes.

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Adam Vande More


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