Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:35:36 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab Message-ID: <14940.58296.189854.67894@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <117998518@toto.iv>
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Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> types: > Does anybody have a strong preference between /etc/crontab or root's > personal crontab for routine system maintenance chores like backups, > cvsup, etc? For crontab stuff, I use roots "personal crontab" for the same reason you do: > I've been using the 'personal crontab' approach to avoid having to merge > /etc/cron after an update... However, for periodic things (backups, maintenance, etc.), I use /usr/local/etc/periodic. Make sure that local_periodic is set appropriately in rc.conf, and just link the shell scripts into it. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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