Bug 166934 - man crontab doesn't document file locations
Summary: man crontab doesn't document file locations
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: crontabs
Version: 4
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jason Vas Dias
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-08-28 11:48 UTC by Nigel Horne
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-08-29 15:32:51 UTC
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Description Nigel Horne 2005-08-28 11:48:15 UTC 
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Description of problem:
"man crontab" should mention, in the FILES section, that personal (i.e. non system ) crontabs are held in /var/spool/cron.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
crontabs-1.10-7

How reproducible:
Always

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Additional info:
Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-08-29 15:32:51 UTC 
'man crond' (crond(8)) does document the /var/spool/cron directory.
  
The crontab(5) man-page only documents the format of crontab files;
The crontab(1) man-page only documents the usage of the crontab program and the
cron.{allow,deny} files.

The crond(8) man-page documents the file locations of all files used by crond.
Comment 2 Nigel Horne 2005-08-29 15:50:57 UTC 
Neither crontab(1), nor crontab(5) cross reference crond(1), they both only
cross reference cron(1).
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