Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:23:42 +0000 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izrsolutions.com> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: questions at FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Q: Setting up local periodic scripts Message-ID: <20020305132342.A6802@drex.staff.izr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020305071953.A58277@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 07:19:53AM -0600 References: <20020305071953.A58277@sheol.localdomain>
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Hi
D J Hawkey Jr (hawkeyd@visi.com) wrote:
> After reading the 'periodic' man page (several times), as well as
> /etc/defaults/periodic.conf and /etc/crontab, I'm still fuzzy about
> setting up "local" periodic scripts.
>
> I've modified 100.clean-disks and 110.clean-tmps to do things more to
> my liking (see PR 35545), and wish to put them in
> /usr/local/etc/periodic and have them run from there _instead_of_
> replacing the system scripts in /etc/periodic.
>
> Is it as simple as what I infer, that I just move them to that local
> directory, do _not_ enable the system equivalents in
> /etc/periodic.conf (though I must set the pertinent script variables
> in that file), and 'periodic' blindly runs whatever it finds in that
> "local" directory, rather like how the boot process blindly runs
> whatever is found in /usr/local/etc/rc.d?
You need to make /usr/local/etc/periodic/{daily,weekly,monthly}:
=== mark@drex:~$ ls -l /usr/local/etc/periodic/
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 5 2001 daily
=== mark@drex:~$ ls -l /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/
total 1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 277 Jul 5 2001 100.locate
Aside from this detail you're absolutely correct.
Cheers,
--
Mark Drayton
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