Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:22:14 +0200 From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass@teledome.gr> To: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com>, "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>, "Vasilkov Vasily" <chand0s@list.ru> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rc question: one-time script Message-ID: <200512151622.14206.nvass@teledome.gr> In-Reply-To: <1134655682.6300.144.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> References: <200512151553.42302.nvass@teledome.gr> <1134655682.6300.144.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
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On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:08, Mike Jeays wrote: > 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 * * * *". Great, thanks a lot!
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