Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:45:49 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> Cc: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <41F31DED.1010807@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <20050122211606.GA18278@catflap.slightlystrange.org> References: <1811797765.20050122212403@wanadoo.fr> <41F2B71C.1060203@scii.nl> <1036176692.20050122220147@wanadoo.fr> <20050122211606.GA18278@catflap.slightlystrange.org>
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Daniel Bye wrote: >On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:01:47PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > >>albi writes: >> >>a> check the /etc/periodic/ dir >> >>I've seen it. But where does it run from? Supposedly you're not >>supposed to modify crontab files directly, but where do these jobs >>belong if crontab -l from root won't list them. Is there some sort of >>"system" crontab in addition to those for root and other users, or how >>does it work? >> >> > >/etc/crontab is indeed the "system" crontab. You can safely edit this >one by hand. > >The following three lines are the ones you're interested in: > ># Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. >1 3 * * * root periodic daily >15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly >30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly > >Note the additional field, before the command is named. It determines >which user the command runs as. > >See crontab(5) for more details. > >Dan > > > As well as periodic(8), which is an excellent exposition on the subject (if you read manpages at all ... it's real nice compared to some :-) Kevin Kinsey
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