From b9ff618c3af22fe5c13cc56ce9db940682bd173e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hartmut Brandt Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 13:02:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the fact that our crontab is not fully POSIX.2 conform, because it doesn't allow the dangerous variant of calling it without any argument. --- usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1 | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1 b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1 index 32b0bb10254..3b8afd0d9f6 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1 +++ b/usr.sbin/cron/crontab/crontab.1 @@ -114,8 +114,13 @@ from the editor, the modified crontab will be installed automatically. The .Nm command conforms to -.St -p1003.2 . -This new command syntax +.St -p1003.2 +with the exception that the dangerous variant of calling +.Nm +without a file name in the first form of the command is not allowed by +this implementation. +The pseudo-filename ``-'' must be specified to read from standard input. +The new command syntax differs from previous versions of Vixie Cron, as well as from the classic SVR3 syntax. .Sh DIAGNOSTICS