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NAME
     cron - clock daemon

USAGE
     /etc/cron

DESCRIPTION
     Cron executes commands at the dates and times specified in
     /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/userid.  In typical DOMAIN/IX
     installations, both /usr/spool/cron and /usr/lib/cron are
     links to the per-node directory `node_data/cron.  You can
     run a command periodically by placing it in this file.  To
     run a command at a specified time once, rather than regu-
     larly, use the at(1) command instead.

     Cron is usually started at boot time by an entry in the
     node's `node_data/etc.rc file.

     Cron examines the node's `node_data/cron/crontabs directory
     when it is invoked, and whenever a user creates a new cron-
     tab file by using crontab(1).

NOTES
     The process created by /etc/cron will automatically be named
     cron.

FILES
     /usr/lib/cron  Main cron directory (link to `node_data/cron)

     /usr/spool/cron
                    cron spool area (link to `node_data/cron)

     /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/userid
                    Per-user crontab files.

     /usr/lib/cron/cron.*
                    Permissions files (cron.allow, cron.deny)

     /usr/lib/cron/log
                    Log file.

DIAGNOSTICS
     Cron records all its actions in /usr/lib/cron/log.

RELATED INFORMATION
     at(1), crontab(1), rc(1M) sh(1)









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