Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:51:53 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab @reboot directive Message-ID: <20080422215153.GA88783@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <18446.21165.998622.980633@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <36b22dcf9403783aa82cb84ac8a886aa@localhost> <20080422111826.GA26749@ozzmosis.com> <20080422163456.285ad902@scorpio> <20080422205618.GA76601@ozzmosis.com> <18446.21165.998622.980633@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:03:41PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > andrew clarke writes: > > > > > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120 > > > > > > Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than > > > starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file? > > > > Since I have root access on that machine, yes I could do that. But > > for my particular setup I couldn't see any advantage. Plus, the less > > I need to edit system-wide config files, the better, I think. > > I'm confused: how is /etc/rc.conf any more a "system-wide > config file" than /etc/crontab? I think it would be a matter of convention and way of speaking. Configuration settings values are done in /etc/rc.conf. The crontab file contains directions to run specific things at specific times. Setting these things up is a type of configuration activity, of course, but not the way it is in rc.conf. ////jerry > > Robert Huff > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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