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| author |   Chris Abela | 2013-10-27 07:12:37 +0100 |
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| committer |   Robby Workman | 2013-10-28 05:39:00 +0100 |
| commit | 12cd740b634feae442197491f27e04852bf1f9ff (patch) | |
| tree | f0f55c5d16bb8588424b66bbeaeeaf9447d788c3 /system/cronie/run-parts.8 | |
| parent | e8f1239b6fa1b68cc41edd704c89eade3b86dbd1 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-12cd740b634feae442197491f27e04852bf1f9ff.tar.gz | |
system/cronie: Updated for version 1.4.11.
- gunzipping of various support files by rworkman
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/system/cronie/run-parts.8 b/system/cronie/run-parts.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2d5e5f6ad1 --- /dev/null +++ b/system/cronie/run-parts.8 @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +.\" -*- nroff -*- +.ds g \" empty +.ds G \" empty +.\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half +.\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent. +.de Tp +.ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP +.el .TP "\\$1" +.. +.TH RUN-PARTS 8 "14 Apr 2002" "Slackware Version 8.1.0 +.SH NAME +run-parts \- run scripts found in a directory +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B run-parts <directory> +.LP +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B run-parts +is a utility that will run scripts that are found in a directory. For example, +it might be useful to create an /etc/cron.daily directory and put scripts in +there for daily cron jobs. Then +.B run-parts +can be called once a day from root's crontab to run all the scripts found in +/etc/cron.daily: + +40 4 * * * run-parts /etc/cron.daily + +.B run-parts +automatically skips files with certain suffixes that are generally associated +with backup or extra files. Any file that ends in one of these will be silently +ignored: ~ ^ , .bak .new .rpmsave .rpmorig .rpmnew .swp +.SH AUTHOR +Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>, with ideas borrowed from the +Red Hat and Debian versions of this utility. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR crond(8), +.BR crontab(8). |