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Call /etc/crontab the "system crontab", not "root's crontab". While

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here, fix some other wording issues

PR:		201048
Submitted by:	teksimian@gmail.com
MFC after:	1 week
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Warren Block 2015-06-22 20:24:59 +00:00
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libexec/atrun/atrun.man
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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\" $FreeBSD$
.Dd October 30, 2012
.Dd June 22, 2015
.Dt ATRUN 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -14,32 +14,32 @@
runs jobs queued by
.Xr at 1 .
.Pp
Root's
The system
.Xr crontab 5
file
.Pa /etc/crontab
has to contain the line
must contain the line
.Bd -literal
*/5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun
.Ed
.Pp
so that
so
.Nm
gets invoked every five minutes.
is invoked every five minutes.
.Pp
At every invocation,
.Nm
will start all the jobs in the lowercase queues whose start
starts all the jobs in the lowercase queues whose start
time has elapsed.
In addition, if the load average over the last minute was less than
the specified limit then a maximum of one batch job (denoted by the
the specified limit, then a maximum of one batch job (denoted by the
uppercase queues) is started.
.Pp
Before starting a job,
.Nm
will check the status of its owner's account with
checks the status of its owner's account with
.Xr pam 3
and refuse to run the job if the account is unavailable,
and refuses to run the job if the account is unavailable,
e.g., locked out or expired.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width indent
@ -53,9 +53,11 @@ Debug; print error messages to standard error instead of using
.Sh WARNINGS
For
.Nm
to work, you have to start up a
to work, a
.Xr cron 8
daemon.
daemon must be running
.Nm
periodically.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/pam.d/atrun -compact
.It Pa /etc/pam.d/atrun