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--- vixie-cron-4.1/cron.8
+++ vixie-cron-4.1/cron.8
@@ -36,10 +36,11 @@
 starting it out of init.
 .PP
 .I Cron
-searches /var/cron/tabs for crontab files which are named after accounts in
+searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in
 /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory.
 .I Cron
-also searches for /etc/crontab which is in a different format (see
+also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d directory,
+which are in a different format (see
 .IR crontab (5)).
 .I Cron
 then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each
--- vixie-cron-4.1/crontab.1
+++ vixie-cron-4.1/crontab.1
@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@
 crontab(5), cron(8)
 .SH FILES
 .nf
-/var/cron/cron.allow
-/var/cron/cron.deny
+/etc/cron.allow
+/etc/cron.deny
 .fi
 .SH STANDARDS
 The
--- vixie-cron-4.1/crontab.5
+++ vixie-cron-4.1/crontab.5
@@ -84,10 +84,17 @@
 .IR cron (8)
 when the minute, hour, and month of year fields match the current time,
 .I and
-when at least one of the two day fields (day of month, or day of week)
+at least one of the two day fields (day of month, or day of week)
 match the current time (see ``Note'' below).
+Note that this means that non-existent times, such as "missing hours"
+during daylight savings conversion, will never match, causing jobs
+scheduled during the "missing times" not to be run.  Similarly, times
+that occur more than once (again, during daylight savings conversion)
+will cause matching jobs to be run twice.
+.PP
 .IR cron (8)
 examines cron entries once every minute.
+.PP
 The time and date fields are:
 .IP
 .ta 1.5i
@@ -101,7 +108,7 @@
 .br
 day of month	1-31
 .br
-month	0-12 (or names, see below)
+month	1-12 (or names, see below)
 .br
 day of week	0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
 .br
@@ -164,6 +171,9 @@
 23 0-23/2 * * * echo "run 23 minutes after midn, 2am, 4am ..., everyday"
 5 4 * * sun     echo "run at 5 after 4 every sunday"
 .fi
+.SH FILES
+/etc/crontab			System crontab file
+
 .SH SEE ALSO
 cron(8), crontab(1)
 .SH EXTENSIONS
@@ -184,6 +194,18 @@
 mailed to a person other than the crontab owner (SysV can't do this), or the
 feature can be turned off and no mail will be sent at all (SysV can't do this
 either).
+.PP
+These special time specification "nicknames" are supported, which replace
+the 5 initial time and date fields, and are prefixed by the '@' character:
+.nf
+@reboot    :    Run once, at startup.
+@yearly    :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
+@annually  :    Run once a year, ie.  "0 0 1 1 *".
+@monthly   :    Run once a month, ie. "0 0 1 * *".
+@weekly    :    Run once a week, ie.  "0 0 * * 0".
+@daily     :    Run once a day, ie.   "0 0 * * *".
+@hourly    :    Run once an hour, ie. "0 * * * *".
+.fi
 .SH AUTHOR
 .nf
 Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
--- vixie-cron-4.1/FEATURES
+++ vixie-cron-4.1/FEATURES
@@ -82,3 +82,8 @@
 	act this way and do the more reasonable thing, which is (IMHO) to "or"
 	the various field-matches together.  In that sense this cron may not
 	be completely similar to some AT&T crons.
+
+--	If it exists, the /etc/cron.d/ directory is parsed like the cron
+	spool directory, except that the files in it are not user-specific
+	and are therefore read with /etc/crontab syntax (the user is
+	specified explicitly in the 6th column).

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