Updated manuals - diffent typos and inotify support mentioned.

diff --git a/man/cron.8 b/man/cron.8
index 9a186643cd6f1e16539ac6bf0d5c69e0ca46148c..731896b0c33c753d2f183c03a88a7cf3c198b97a 100644 (file)
--- a/man/cron.8
+++ b/man/cron.8
@@ -19,10 +19,10 @@
 .\"
 .\" $Id: cron.8,v 1.8 2004/01/23 19:03:32 vixie Exp $
 .\" 
-.TH CRON "8" "10 January 2007" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH CRON "8" "26 June 2008" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .UC 4
 .SH NAME
-cron \- daemon to execute scheduled commands (ISC Cron V4.1)
+cron \- daemon to execute scheduled commands (cronie V1.2)
 .SH SYNOPSIS
 .B cron
 .RB [ -n " | " -p " | " -m \fP\fI<mail command>\fP\fB ]
@@ -59,17 +59,32 @@ command to see if it should be run in the current minute.  When executing
 commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user
 named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists).
 .PP
-Additionally,
-.I cron
-checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime
-on
-.IR /etc/crontab )
-has changed, and if it has,
-.I cron
-will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have
-changed.  Thus
+There are two ways, how the changes are checked in crontables. The first
+is checking the modtime of file and the other is using inotify support.
+You can find out which of them are you using, if you check 
+.I /var/log/cron
+where is (or isn't) inotify mentioned after start of daemon. The inotify support
+is watching for changes in all crontables and touch the disk only in case
+that something was changed.
+.PP
+In other case
 .I cron
-need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified.  Note that the
+checks each minute to see if its crontables modtime have changes and reload
+those which have changes. There is no need to restart cron after some of the
+crontable is modified. This option is used also when inotify couldn't be initialized.
+.PP
+.I Cron
+is checking those files or directories:
+.IR /etc/crontab
+system crontab is usually for running daily, weekly, monthly jobs.
+.BR
+.IR /etc/cron.d/
+where are system cronjobs stored for different users.
+.BR
+.IR /var/spool/cron
+that's mean spool directory for user crontables.
+
+Note that the
 .BR crontab (1)
 command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a
 crontab.
@@ -133,7 +148,8 @@ user other than their owner.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .IR crontab (1),
 .IR crontab (5),
+.IR inotify (7),
 .IR pam (8)
 .SH AUTHOR
 .nf
-Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
+Marcela Mašláňová <mmaslano@redhat.com>
\ No newline at end of file

diff --git a/man/crontab.1 b/man/crontab.1
index 14133aab096b8cf9a3d2f52d7e9715a637fc48f1..b7b7e969e26d128134ae5e305ed16de1c2cea3a1 100644 (file)
--- a/man/crontab.1
+++ b/man/crontab.1
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ named file or standard input if the pseudo-filename "-" is given.
 The current crontab will be displayed on standard output.
 .TP
 .B "\-r"
-The current crontab will be be removed.
+The current crontab will be removed.
 .TP
 .B "\-e"
 This option is used to edit the current crontab using the editor specified by