Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-99
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
Hi, I read through manpages and found some typo and mistakes in
Debian-specific descriptions:
* An "allow" is duplicating in cron.8 and one of them is useless.
* An unknown word, "ala", appears in crontab.5, which seems to mean
"like" or "corresponding to"...? (I've never seen it...)
* Comments in /etc/crontab says no files other then it have a username
field, but each file in /etc/cron.d has one.
I've create a patch to fix it. Could you please apply it?
Many thanks,
-nori
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-3-686
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.eucJP, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.eucJP (charmap=EUC-JP)
Versions of packages cron depends on:
ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups
ii debianutils 2.8.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
-- no debconf information
--- cron.8.orig Tue Dec 12 19:45:50 2006
+++ cron.8 Thu Dec 14 00:45:40 2006
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
example, inherit environment variable settings from it. The intended purpose
of this feature is to allow packages that require
finer control of their scheduling than the /etc/cron.{daily,weekly,monthly}
-directories allow to add a crontab file to /etc/cron.d. Such files
+directories to add a crontab file to /etc/cron.d. Such files
should be named after the package that supplies them. Files must
conform to the same naming convention as used by
.IR run-parts(8) :
--- crontab.5.orig Tue Dec 12 19:45:50 2006
+++ crontab.5 Thu Dec 14 00:56:26 2006
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
(\\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data
after the first % will be sent to the command as standard
input. There is no way to split a single command line onto multiple
-lines, ala the shell's trailing "\\".
+lines, like the shell's trailing "\\".
.PP
Note: The day of a command's execution can be specified by two
fields \(em day of month, and day of week. If both fields are
@@ -227,8 +227,9 @@
.nf
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
-# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
-# This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do.
+# command to install the new version when you edit this file
+# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also has username fields,
+# that none of other crontabs do.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
--- crontab.main.orig Tue Dec 12 19:45:50 2006
+++ crontab.main Thu Dec 14 00:56:02 2006
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
-# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
-# This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do.
+# command to install the new version when you edit this file
+# and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also has username fields,
+# that none of other crontabs do.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
