From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 21 15: 0:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9543B37B43E for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:00:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8LLwNv68966; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:58:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8LLvps01310; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:57:52 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200009212157.e8LLvps01310@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: "Chad R. Larson" , jmutter , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: New periodic.conf (was Re: SysV Style Init?) In-Reply-To: Message from "Crist J . Clark" of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 23:40:02 PDT." <20000920234002.X367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:57:50 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am still trying to figure out what the hell happened to the periodic > scripts when I was not looking. [.....] > I think I can guess the reasoning. Someone wanted to have a > defaults/periodic.conf and periodic.conf so that minor changes to > values in the small scripts won't be clobbered if one flies > mergemaster on autopilot instead of merging by hand. Have a look at periodic(8) and periodic.conf(5). The idea behind the whole thing is so that people can build their own /etc/periodic.conf and drop it onto any new machine they install to get whatever they want out of the daily/weekly/monthly runs. They can also create their own periodic directories with their own set of checks - in a single file or in multiple files. They can mail the output to several people or they can log it somewhere... they can do lots of things. Specifically, if you want to ``tweak'' things (you mentioned that this has become harder to do....), you can simply disable the script in question and put your own in /usr/local/etc/periodic/whatever. If you don't like the variables, don't use them. If you think what you're doing is sane, send-pr a patch to give other people the opportunity to do the same thing - via a new variable. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message