bcron-start(8)

💖 bcron-start — the manual page, but make it a group chat 💖

okay bestie, you're looking at bcron-start from the System Manager's Manual (that's the bcron-start(8) situation, section 8, system admin vibes only 👑). it starts the bcron scheduling system. that's it. that's the whole thing. and yet? it's iconic. let's go. ✨

✨ NAME ✨

bcron-start — start the bcron scheduling system, no cap 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bcron-start [ exec-wrapper ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bcron-start

not me giving you a one-word description 😭 that's literally the whole paragraph. the manpage said what it said and i respect it. periodt.

okay but here's the actual tea, bestie: bcron-exec should normally be run by bcron-start in conjunction with bcron-sched. the way that these three are a lil trio and they need each other?? a found family fr fr 🫶

💅 ENVIRONMENT 💅

• BCRON_USER — okay so bcron-start drops root privileges and switches to this user before it starts bcron-sched. it's giving "i'm handing off the crown, i was never meant to hold it forever" 💀. so like, set this to whoever should actually be running the show. root is not invited to the afterparty.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• bcron-sched(8)
• bcron-exec(8)

go read those too, they're part of the lore 🧚

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Bruce Guenter <bruce@untroubled.org> — the actual main character who wrote this, we love him, we thank him 💜

and that's the page!! this was bcron-start(8) from the System Manager's Manual — shoutout to the footer for the manual name and section, mwah 😘 slay, go schedule something 💖🌸✨