bcron-sched (8)

bcron-sched

bcron-sched reads job descriptions from stored crontabs, determines when they need to be run, and writes execution commands to standard output for bcron-exec to execute.

bcron-sched should normally be run by bcron-start in conjunction with bcron-exec.

SIGUSR1

On receipt of the SIGUSR1 signal, bcron-sched will dump a set of log messages describing all the jobs it is scheduling.

BCRON_SPOOL

The spool directory for bcron. Defaults to /var/spool/cron.

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/crontabs

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/trigger

bcron-exec(8), bcron-start(8), bcrontab(1)

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>