bcron-sched(8)

bcron-sched8

Bcron system scheduler

Usage

bcron-sched

Overview

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.

Signals

SIGUSR1

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

Environment

BCRON_SPOOL

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

Files

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/crontabs

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/trigger

Releases

9 releases since Debian 4.0 (Etch); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 4.0–7
  2. 8–13

Author

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>

From bcron 0.11-23 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.