I was upgrading a system from 11.2 to 12.1, and freebsd-update presented me with a diff removing the /usr/libexec/atrun line from /etc/crontab. I wasn't sure whether to accept this change, so I RTFM and see that atrun(8) still says: ==== The system crontab(5) file /etc/crontab must contain the line */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun so atrun is invoked every five minutes. ==== This makes removing the line seem like an incorrect change; however, I looked through the svn history of the crontab file and see that r318443 removed this line and put it in /etc/cron.d/at instead. The man page should be updated to reflect this, but I don't know what the best wording is. Perhaps something like "The system crontab(5) segment /etc/cron.d/at must contain the line"? Additionally, crontab(5) does not mention cron.d at all. Would merging the "Jobs in /etc/cron.d/" and "EXAMPLE OF A JOB IN /etc/cron.d/job" sections of cronie's man page [1] be appropriate? It's clearly derived from the same Vixie cron man page and is ISC-licensed. [1] https://github.com/cronie-crond/cronie/blob/master/man/crontab.5
Fix https://github.com/kravietz/freebsd-src/pull/1
(In reply to Paweł Krawczyk from comment #1) Correct PR https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1106
A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=783baf00128f6cf6fc08404eaad6a11b29d4025d commit 783baf00128f6cf6fc08404eaad6a11b29d4025d Author: Paweł Krawczyk <p+freebsd@krvtz.net> AuthorDate: 2024-05-10 04:21:18 +0000 Commit: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2024-05-10 04:34:06 +0000 at cron file is now in /etc/cron.d PR: 243380 Reviewed by: imp Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1106 libexec/atrun/atrun.man | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
committed to HEAD, MFC is waiting.