[Pkg-cron-devel] [SCM] Git repository for pkg-cron branch, master, updated. debian/3.0pl1-119-14-g675bc24

Javier Fernandez-Sanguino jfs at debian.org
Fri Sep 16 23:06:08 UTC 2011


The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 001ef7bb65908e12e46c8d6e7c60b96e616abbf7
Author: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs at debian.org>
Date:   Sat Sep 17 00:26:52 2011 +0200

    Document a limitation of @reboot, using patch proposed by Regid Ichira

diff --git a/crontab.5 b/crontab.5
index 7901509..e884072 100644
--- a/crontab.5
+++ b/crontab.5
@@ -232,6 +232,14 @@ string	meaning
 .br
 @hourly	Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".
 .br
+.PP
+Please note that startup, as far as @reboot is concerned, is the time when
+the
+.IR cron (8)
+daemon startup.  In particular, it may be before some system daemons,
+or other facilities, were startup.  This is due to the boot order
+sequence of the machine.
+
 .SH EXAMPLE CRON FILE
 
 The following lists an example of a user crontab file.

-- 
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