svn commit: r284709 - head/libexec/atrun
Warren Block
wblock at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 22 20:25:00 UTC 2015
Author: wblock (doc committer)
Date: Mon Jun 22 20:24:59 2015
New Revision: 284709
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/284709
Log:
Call /etc/crontab the "system crontab", not "root's crontab". While
here, fix some other wording issues
PR: 201048
Submitted by: teksimian at gmail.com
MFC after: 1 week
Modified:
head/libexec/atrun/atrun.man
Modified: head/libexec/atrun/atrun.man
==============================================================================
--- head/libexec/atrun/atrun.man Mon Jun 22 20:21:57 2015 (r284708)
+++ head/libexec/atrun/atrun.man Mon Jun 22 20:24:59 2015 (r284709)
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\" $FreeBSD$
-.Dd October 30, 2012
+.Dd June 22, 2015
.Dt ATRUN 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -14,32 +14,32 @@
runs jobs queued by
.Xr at 1 .
.Pp
-Root's
+The system
.Xr crontab 5
file
.Pa /etc/crontab
-has to contain the line
+must contain the line
.Bd -literal
*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
.Ed
.Pp
-so that
+so
.Nm
-gets invoked every five minutes.
+is invoked every five minutes.
.Pp
At every invocation,
.Nm
-will start all the jobs in the lowercase queues whose start
+starts all the jobs in the lowercase queues whose start
time has elapsed.
In addition, if the load average over the last minute was less than
-the specified limit then a maximum of one batch job (denoted by the
+the specified limit, then a maximum of one batch job (denoted by the
uppercase queues) is started.
.Pp
Before starting a job,
.Nm
-will check the status of its owner's account with
+checks the status of its owner's account with
.Xr pam 3
-and refuse to run the job if the account is unavailable,
+and refuses to run the job if the account is unavailable,
e.g., locked out or expired.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width indent
@@ -53,9 +53,11 @@ Debug; print error messages to standard
.Sh WARNINGS
For
.Nm
-to work, you have to start up a
+to work, a
.Xr cron 8
-daemon.
+daemon must be running
+.Nm
+periodically.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/pam.d/atrun -compact
.It Pa /etc/pam.d/atrun
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