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--- ./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
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