Re: Bug#391836: debian-policy: New virtual package: cron-daemon
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:43:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I suspect that we need to document that packages may rely on @reboot,
> @yearly, @monthly, @weekly, @daily, and @hourly, and also on the */2
> syntax. We also need to document that, contrary POSIX, files in
> /etc/cron.d have seven fields instead of six, with the sixth field naming
> the local user as which the cron job runs. That's a common error when
> writing cron.d files.
>
> Do both of our proposed cron daemons support that same syntax? (Does
> anyone here use bcron to comment on that?)
bcron supports the */n syntax, but not @reboot and the other @*. See
http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=bcrontab&sektion=5
Regards, Gerrit.
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