bin/145912: trivial enhancement patch for man crontab

[Julian H. Stacey]

The following reply was made to PR docs/145912; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com>
To: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/145912: trivial enhancement patch for man crontab 
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:38:11 +0200

 > From:		Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd at gmail.com> 
 
 Garrett Cooper wrote:
 > On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
 > 
 > >  .Bl -tag -width /var/cron/allow -compact
 > >  .It Pa /var/cron/allow
 > >  .It Pa /var/cron/deny
 > > + .It Pa /var/cron/tabs/{login_names}
 > 
 >     Should {login_names} be removed
 
 It cant be removed because it does not exist to remove,
 until after my send-pr is commited.
 
 
 >  because of the potential ambiguity
 > that it introduces
 
 What ambiguity ?
 
 
 > and be better defined through a description like
 > with cron(8)?
 
 Dont know what you mean.
 
 
 > Also, there's no description of the proposed change in
 > the bug report, so for someone that's trying to figure out what this
 > change is doing
 
 It's a proposal for a one line change to a manual !
 
 
 > from a customer perspective it would be nice if it
 > said something like 'add a reference noting where the default
 > installed crontabs are located', etc.
 
 
 Yawn !  Add that comment to the send-pr if you want, pretty obvious.
 Any `customer' who cant figure what a one line diff to a manual
 does is a customer opinion I dont care about :-)
 
 
 >     Finally, this documentation kind of duplicates what's already in cron(8):
 > 
 >      The cron utility searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are
 >      named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into mem-
 >      ory.  The cron utility also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a dif-
 >      ferent format (see crontab(5)).
 
 If you want, feel free to submit a send-pr for some wider consolidation
 of documentation, perhaps to move some tect from man cron to man crontab.
 
 
 > [...]
 > 
 > FILES
 >      /etc/crontab     System crontab file
 >      /etc/pam.d/cron  pam.conf(5) configuration file for cron
 >      /var/cron/tabs   Directory for personal crontab files
 
 Cheers,
 Julian
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