Document the format of the system crontab file, since cron(8) says that we do.

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.\" $NetBSD: crontab.5,v 1.2 2010/05/06 18:53:17 christos Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: crontab.5,v 1.3 2010/07/15 22:18:20 christos Exp $
.\"
.\"/* Copyright 1988,1990,1993,1994 by Paul Vixie
.\" * All rights reserved
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.\"
.\" Id: crontab.5,v 2.4 1994/01/15 20:43:43 vixie Exp
.\"
.Dd April 4, 2009
.Dd July 15, 2010
.Dt CRONTAB 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
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doesn't matter).
Ranges or lists of names are not allowed.
.Pp
If the
.Nm
file is the system crontab
.Pa /etc/crontab ,
then the next (
.Dq sixth )
field contains the username to run the command as.
.Pp
The
.Dq sixth
field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run.
field (or the
.Dq seventh
one for
.Pa /etc/crontab )
(the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run.
The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or percent
signs
.Pq Sq % ,