--- ./crond.8.orig 2010-01-18 09:29:25.000000000 -0600 +++ ./crond.8 2010-02-11 17:22:36.000000000 -0600 @@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ .RE .TP .B -c dir -directory of per-user crontabs (defaults to /var/spool/cron) +directory of per-user crontabs (defaults to /var/spool/cron/crontabs) .RS .RE .TP .B -t dir directory of timestamps for \@freq and FREQ=\&... jobs (defaults to -/var/spool/cronstamps) +/var/spool/cron/cronstamps) .RS .RE .TP @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ \f[B]crontab\f[] notifies \f[B]crond\f[] that a user's crontab file has been modified (or created or deleted) through the \[lq]cron.update\[rq] file, which resides in the per-user crontabs -directory (usually /var/spool/cron). +directory (usually /var/spool/cron/crontabs). \f[B]crontab\f[] appends the filename of the modified crontab file to \[lq]cron.update\[rq]; and \f[B]crond\f[] inspects this file to determine when to reparse or otherwise update its internal list of @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ .PP Whenever a \[lq]cron.update\[rq] file is seen, \f[B]crond\f[] also re-reads timestamp files from its timestamp directory (usually -/var/spool/cronstamps). +/var/spool/cron/cronstamps). Normally these will just mirror \f[B]crond\f[]'s own internal representations, but this mechanism could be used to manually notify \f[B]crond\f[] that you've externally updated the @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ crontab to /etc/cron.d/foo. .PP The superuser has a per-user crontab along with other users. -It usually resides at /var/spool/cron/root. +It usually resides at /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. .PP Users can only have a crontab if they have an entry in /etc/passwd; however they do not need to have login shell privileges. --- ./crontab.1.orig 2010-01-18 09:29:25.000000000 -0600 +++ ./crontab.1 2010-02-11 17:23:13.000000000 -0600 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ different user and/or crontab directory. .PP The superuser also has his or her own per-user crontab, saved as -/var/spool/cron/root. +/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. .PP Unlike other cron daemons, this crond/crontab package doesn't try to do everything under the sun. @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ The formats \@hourly, \@daily, \@weekly, \@monthly, and \@yearly need to update timestamp files when their jobs have been run. The timestamp files are saved as -/var/spool/cronstamps/user.jobname. +/var/spool/cron/cronstamps/user.jobname. So for all of these formats, the cron command needs a jobname, given by prefixing the command with \f[B]ID=jobname\f[]. (This syntax was chosen to maximize the chance that our crontab