Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 13:23:42 +0000 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izrsolutions.com> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: questions at FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Q: Setting up local periodic scripts Message-ID: <20020305132342.A6802@drex.staff.izr.com> In-Reply-To: <20020305071953.A58277@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 07:19:53AM -0600 References: <20020305071953.A58277@sheol.localdomain>
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Hi D J Hawkey Jr (hawkeyd@visi.com) wrote: > After reading the 'periodic' man page (several times), as well as > /etc/defaults/periodic.conf and /etc/crontab, I'm still fuzzy about > setting up "local" periodic scripts. > > I've modified 100.clean-disks and 110.clean-tmps to do things more to > my liking (see PR 35545), and wish to put them in > /usr/local/etc/periodic and have them run from there _instead_of_ > replacing the system scripts in /etc/periodic. > > Is it as simple as what I infer, that I just move them to that local > directory, do _not_ enable the system equivalents in > /etc/periodic.conf (though I must set the pertinent script variables > in that file), and 'periodic' blindly runs whatever it finds in that > "local" directory, rather like how the boot process blindly runs > whatever is found in /usr/local/etc/rc.d? You need to make /usr/local/etc/periodic/{daily,weekly,monthly}: === mark@drex:~$ ls -l /usr/local/etc/periodic/ total 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 5 2001 daily === mark@drex:~$ ls -l /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/ total 1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 277 Jul 5 2001 100.locate Aside from this detail you're absolutely correct. Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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