Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:08:02 -0500 From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com> To: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledome.gr> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rc question: one-time script Message-ID: <1134655682.6300.144.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <200512151553.42302.nvass@teledome.gr> References: <200512151553.42302.nvass@teledome.gr>
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On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:53 +0200, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > Hello list, > > Is there any way of runnning a script, only once? > at boot time for example? and all that in an rc friendly > way, without having to change the /etc/rc* scripts? > > thanks in advance > > Nikos > > _______________________________________________ > 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" This quote from 'man 5 crontab' should help. Instead of the first five fields, one of eight special strings may appear: string meaning ------ ------- @reboot Run once, at startup. @yearly Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *". @annually (same as @yearly) @monthly Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *". @weekly Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0". @daily Run once a day, "0 0 * * *". @midnight (same as @daily) @hourly Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".
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