[Pkg-cron-devel] [pkg-cron] 06/10: Document limitation due to account renaming as described in Ubuntu bug 73398 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/73398

[Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Peña]

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commit 7efc50accf11b0761fe326a160694b6669878817
Author: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <jfs at debian.org>
Date:   Sun Mar 11 23:01:24 2018 +0100

    Document limitation due to account renaming as described in Ubuntu bug 73398 - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/73398
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 crontab.1 | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/crontab.1 b/crontab.1
index 409ed39..cf04af1 100644
--- a/crontab.1
+++ b/crontab.1
@@ -157,6 +157,16 @@ cron requires that each entry in a crontab end in a newline character. If the
 last entry in a crontab is missing the newline, cron will consider the crontab
 (at least partially) broken and refuse to install it.
 
+.SH DIAGNOSTICS
+The files under 
+.I
+/var/spool/cron/crontabs
+are named based on the user's account name. Crontab jobs will not be run for
+users whose accounts have been renamed either due to changes in the local system
+or because they are managed through a central user database (external to the system,
+for example an LDAP directory).
+
+
 .SH AUTHOR
 Paul Vixie <paul at vix.com> is the author of 
 .I cron

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