Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 20:41:52 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where should system cron scripts go? Message-ID: <199901080241.UAA43973@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee) of "Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:27:00 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901071124480.9374-100000@server7.singular.com>
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John Barbee writes: > hello, > i'm in the process of adding a number of shell and perl scripts to > perform system and network tasks. these scripts will be called > periodically by cron from root's crontab. what would be the most proper > place for these scripts? should i just put them in /etc/ with daily and > weekly? IMHO its root's cron job(s), and they are not standard system software, so I'd put them in root's home directory, /root. /root is also a good place to stash a spare copy of your kernel config file and other various and sundry things such as a spare /etc/fstab, /etc/hosts, ... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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