Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:34:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: adding to periodic/weekly Message-ID: <19990728103449.I66861@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990728030422.I7349@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 03:04:25AM %2B1000 References: <19990728030422.I7349@welearn.com.au>
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On Wednesday, 28 July 1999 at 3:04:25 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > I want to add some maintenance tasks to be run weekly (maybe daily ones too). > There seem to be at least five ways to do this: > > Just add it to the system crontab > - Can run at a different time, if necessary. Leaves periodic unmolested. > - Separates it from other weeklies, could become lost or confusing. > Add it to /etc/periodic/weekly/999.local > - This might be what the file is intended for. > - Maybe I shouldn't clutter that file. > Create /etc/weekly.local and put it in there > - It's tempting because 999.local picks it up if present. > - Comment says this is only for backward compatibility. > Add another file /etc/periodic/weekly/<high number>.whatever > - Can keep it away from existing sequence, or insert if necessary > - Future upgrades might add files using the numbers I choose > Put it in a numbered file under /usr/local/etc/periodic/weekly/ > - This seems to be what it's intended for, but nobody said I could > - Path is already in rc.conf but doesn't exist, not sure why not used > - Can't find doc on its use, e.g. run in path order? unique numbers required? > > Which method is generally best, and why? > Are any of these methods really naughty? Interesting question. I don't have any personal preferences, though I put my stuff in /etc/crontab or my private crontab out of habit. But this is probably material for -hackers, so I'm forwarding it there. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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