Bug 248048 - Incorrect file path in at(1) man page
Summary: Incorrect file path in at(1) man page
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Manual Pages (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2020-07-17 15:51 UTC by Ian
Modified: 2020-07-17 20:45 UTC (History)
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Description Ian 2020-07-17 15:51:34 UTC 
Reading through the man page for at(1), it mentions of the atrun cron job:

"If a finer granularity is needed, the system crontab at /etc/crontab needs to be changed."

However, atrun is no longer run by the system crontab in "/etc/crontab", but rather in "/etc/cron.d/at".  The man page should be update to reflect the new path.
Comment 1 commit-hook freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-07-17 20:43:44 UTC 
A commit references this bug:

Author: allanjude
Date: Fri Jul 17 20:43:00 UTC 2020
New revision: 363286
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/363286

Log:
  at(1): Fix location of at(1) crontab

  With r318443, atrun was moved from /etc/crontab to /etc/cron.d/at,
  but the man-page was unfortunately not updated to reflect this.

  PR:		248048
  Submitted by:	debdrup
  Reported by:	yoitsmeremember+fbsd at gmail.com
  Reviewed by:	Pau Amma <pauamma at gundo.com>
  Sponsored by:	Klara Inc.
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25709

Changes:
  head/usr.bin/at/at.man
Comment 2 Allan Jude freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2020-07-17 20:45:28 UTC 
Thank you for the report.