bcron-sched(8)

✨ NAME ✨

bcron-sched — the bcron system scheduler, aka the girl who keeps everyone's calendar straight 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bcron-sched

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so picture this: bcron-sched is the brains of the operation. It reads job descriptions out of your stored crontabs, figures out when each of those jobs needs to run, and then writes execution commands to standard output so that bcron-exec can go do the actual running. She's not doing the work herself, bestie — she's the one handing out the assignments. 👑

Normally you do not run bcron-sched by hand. It should be run by bcron-start, working in conjunction with bcron-exec. That's the whole squad, functioning as intended. No cap. 🫶

🦋 SIGNALS 🦋

• SIGUSR1 — the moment bcron-sched catches this signal, it dumps a whole set of log messages describing every single job it's currently scheduling. It's giving full transparency, a complete roll call of everything on the books. 📋✨

🎀 ENVIRONMENT 🎀

• BCRON_SPOOL — the spool directory for bcron. If you don't set it, it defaults to /var/spool/cron. That's the vibe, that's the spot. 🗂️

🌈 FILES 🌈

• /var/spool/cron/crontabs/crontabs
• /var/spool/cron/crontabs/trigger

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

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

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org>

And that's the whole page, babes — straight out of the System Manager's Manual, filed under bcron-sched(8). Go forth and schedule responsibly. 💜🦋