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18 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
wiz
35d2900127 Quote question mark so it's correctly marked up.
Problem reported by Ryo HAYASAKA in PR 42963.
2010-03-12 09:36:15 +00:00
wiz
88ada6d2b7 Convert to mdoc. Bump date for previous. 2009-04-04 17:29:59 +00:00
perry
4cfab35c9c New feature: "?" for time specifications, means a single time selected at
random from within the range at file read time. Very useful if you
want to avoid having a fleet of machines melt a server by all trying to
contact it at a precise time every morning. See docs for details.

Reviewed by: christos, apb, vixie, others.

XXX apb suggests, quite reasonably, that ?10-16/2 should mean
something like 10,12,14,16 or 11,13,15. I'm too lazy to do it right
now, but it should be done.

XXX vixie suggests, quite reasonably, that if you're using "?" one
should delay randomly by 0-59 seconds. In the modern NTP world, you
could imagine that with a million well synchronized machines the
second just at the minute would be hit quite hard. I'm too lazy to do
it right now, but it should be done.

XXX cron needs to be updated to Vixie's cron 4.1 code.
2009-04-04 16:05:10 +00:00
jmmv
25298658a7 Fix indentation of a line in the sample file. 2004-09-02 11:41:27 +00:00
atatat
29bf0c2821 Implement CRON_TZ and CRON_WITHIN to provide finer control over job
execution.  CRON_TZ sets the time zone within which a job is
considered for execution (but not in which it runs), and CRON_WITHIN
allows jobs to be skipped whose execution is delayed for any reason
(eg, the system was sleeping or the load average is too high for
timely execution).
2002-04-25 14:45:05 +00:00
ross
2a76afae02 Generate <>& symbolically. I'm avoiding .../dist/... directories for now. 2002-02-08 01:36:18 +00:00
wiz
5db87f557b Whitespace nits. 2002-01-19 03:09:21 +00:00
aidan
e04cec137b Allow quote-escaping of environment variable names so that they may contain
spaces again.
1998-10-12 22:15:47 +00:00
mouse
2ebe693d57 Mark my changes, per Vixie's license at the top. 1997-07-20 02:54:55 +00:00
mouse
82b0af12ec Document the @ commands (@reboot, @hourly, etc).
Closes the rest of PR 2806.
1997-07-13 11:01:16 +00:00
mouse
f454390b54 Oops, also document day-of-month values as starting from 1, not 0. 1997-07-13 10:52:19 +00:00
mouse
ac5c1e0f93 Document allowed month numbers correctly, per PR 2806.
(@ command docs on their way.)
1997-07-13 10:42:58 +00:00
mikel
2b8bc7438f RCSid police 1997-03-13 06:19:07 +00:00
jtc
887f390664 Vixie Cron 3.0, patch 1 1994-01-26 19:09:20 +00:00
jtc
44fa25f9b7 Vixie Cron 3.0-release 1994-01-20 02:46:53 +00:00
jtc
2a22045ae0 Vixie Cron 3.0-prerelease, patch 11 1994-01-12 18:35:59 +00:00
jtc
e59e4eb1ce Vixie Cron 3.0-prerelease, patch 10 1994-01-11 19:10:45 +00:00
jtc
644d4f8787 Vixie Cron 3.0-prerelease, patch 9 1994-01-05 20:40:12 +00:00