bcron-spool(8)

💅 bcron-spool — bestie's guide to the spool (section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, btw) ✨

okay so. this one's bcron-spool, from the System Manager's Manual, and she's the girl behind the counter who handles everybody's crontab submissions. let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

bcron-spool — manage user crontab submissions 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

envuidgid $BCRON_USER unixserver -U /var/run/bcron-spool bcron-spool

like yes, that's the whole line, she runs under envuidgid as $BCRON_USER, listening on that unix socket at /var/run/bcron-spool. iconic setup, no notes 🫶

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so bcron-spool is the main character who does the bcron spool stuff on behalf of users — she's the proxy, she's the middlewoman, she's handling it so you don't have to 😌

she takes one of three commands:

1. List an existing file 👀
2. Remove an existing file 🗑️
3. Copy given data into a new file 📥

and here's the part that matters, bestie — the name of the file in the spool directory is restricted to the username of the connecting process. periodt. you can't just go naming files whatever you want in there, the spool knows who you are and that's the only name you get 💅

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• BCRON_SPOOL — the spool directory for bcron, bestie. defaults to /var/spool/cron if you don't set her yourself ✨

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• bcron-sched(8)
• bcrontab(1)

go read those next, iykyk 🧚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org> — the legend herself, we stan 🫶

aaaand that's the page!! 💖 this was bcron-spool, section 8 of the System Manager's Manual, and that's the whole vibe check — go forth and spool responsibly, bestie 🎀✨🦋