Bug 863692

Summary:	Possible documentation error in /etc/crontab
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Christian Nygaard <christiannygaard>
Component:	crontabs	Assignee:	Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-daemons
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Description Christian Nygaard 2012-10-06 16:26:01 UTC

Description of problem:

Possible documentation error, /etc/crontab says
# For details see man 4 crontabs
but it should possibly say the following which has the details
# For details see man 5 crontab

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
crontabs-1.10-33

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. grep details /etc/crontab
2. man 4 crontabs
3. man 5 crontab
  
Actual results:
# For details see man 4 crontabs

Expected results:
# For details see man 5 crontab

Additional info:

Comment 2 Marcela Mašláňová 2012-10-08 07:11:45 UTC

I disagree. /etc/crontab belongs into crontabs package. The file is there only for backward compatibility. The upstream preferred way is using anacrontab for scheduling daily, weekly jobs instead of /etc/crontab. Admin who still use /etc/crontab are probably aware of settings of cron jobs anyway.

btw in crontabs.4 is a paragraph with SEE ALSO anacrontab.5.