CfR: config chapter changes

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Feb 15 17:29:45 UTC 2012


On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Glen Barber wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:03:11PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote:
>>> @@ -547,11 +548,8 @@
>>>  	  day of the week.  All these fields must be numeric values, and follow
>>>  	  the twenty-four hour clock.  The <literal>who</literal> field is special,
>>>  	  and only exists in the <filename>/etc/crontab</filename> file.
>>> -	  This field specifies which user the command should be run as.
>>> -	  When a user installs his or her <filename>crontab</filename> file, they
>>> -	  will not have this option. Finally, the <literal>command</literal>
>>> option is listed.
>>>> -	  This is the last field, so naturally it should designate the command
>>> -	  to be executed.</para>
>>> +	  This field specifies which user the command should be run
>>> +	  as.  The last field is the command to be executed.</para>
>>
>> Grammar nit:  What do you think about "This field specifies the user
>> <username>root</username> under which the command should run." ?
>>
>
> Wording issue on my part.  What I meant was: "This field specifies the
> user under which <username>root</username> should invoke the command."

How about

  "user as which <username>root</username> will run the command."



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