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authorXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2026-01-21 06:28:39 +0000
committerXin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>2026-01-28 05:54:14 +0000
commitd2fb6b8f80cc63df05be433bed8990f79a6e2fd2 (patch)
tree2f0b69aabf3978bb89b8be4c858c16ff1396c2bc
parentc8d759230a0e4449615b9185f2d86969f3792ba2 (diff)
cron.8: clarify system crontab format
PR: 234504 (cherry picked from commit 53d6b23765ca27ac7eca4096b2a83e84631c4ec8)
-rw-r--r--usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.811
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8 b/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8
index 782bbce2fb6e..23a295393df5 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/cron/cron/cron.8
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
.\"
.\" $Id: cron.8,v 1.2 1998/08/14 00:32:36 vixie Exp $
.\"
-.Dd February 9, 2022
+.Dd January 20, 2026
.Dt CRON 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -53,14 +53,15 @@ for crontab files which are named after accounts in
crontabs found are loaded into memory.
The
.Nm
-utility also searches for
+utility also searches
.Pa /etc/crontab
and files in
.Pa /etc/cron.d
and
-.Pa /usr/local/etc/cron.d
-which are in a different format (see
-.Xr crontab 5 ) .
+.Pa /usr/local/etc/cron.d ,
+which use the system crontab format described in
+.Xr crontab 5
+(including a user field).
.Pp
The
.Nm