Include some documentation posted to the list by vodz
authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:07:10 +0000 (08:07 -0000)
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:07:10 +0000 (08:07 -0000)
miscutils/Config.in

index 7e18c16a093e0a69e326125bd3c0c436ce82dee6..ded26b3a81d7fd4c4cf0ed761c947fa22279d35a 100644 (file)
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ config CONFIG_CROND
        help
          Crond is a background daemon that parses individual crontab
          files and executes commands on behalf of the users in question.
+         This is a port of dcron from slackware.  It uses files of the
+         format /var/spool/cron/crontabs/<username> files, for example:
+             $ cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
+             # Run daily cron jobs at 4:40 every day:
+             40 4 * * * /etc/cron/daily > /dev/null 2>&1
 
 config CONFIG_FEATURE_CROND_CALL_SENDMAIL
        bool "  Using /usr/sbin/sendmail?"