Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:03:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: configuring periodic services Message-ID: <200006162303.AAA43164@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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I would like to implement an /etc/periodic.conf, /etc/defaults/periodic.conf scheme that will contain variables to control periodic jobs, in the same way that $clear_daily_* have just started doing in rc.conf. Initially I'll introduce a /etc/defaults/periodic.conf file with a bunch of stuff including replacements for $clear_daily_* and a /etc/periodic.conf (installed by sysinstall, not src/etc/Makefile) that contains a few comments and nothing else. The default file will contain tunables to make periodic jobs behave as they currently do and a man page will describe what's changable. I don't see any disagreement here (hah!), but think that there may be preferences for daily.conf/weekly.conf/monthly.conf instead. Personally I don't think that's necessary - not if the variables in periodic.conf all contain daily/weekly/monthly substrings. -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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