bcron-sched (8)

Contents

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ENVIRONMENT
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

NAME

bcron-sched - bcron system scheduler

SYNOPSIS

bcron-sched

DESCRIPTION

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.

ENVIRONMENT

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

FILES

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/crontabs

/var/spool/cron/crontabs/trigger

SEE ALSO

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

AUTHOR

Bruce Guenter <bruceg@em.ca>