From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 6:31:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 844DB37B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:31:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C724443E31 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 28284 invoked from network); 31 Jul 2002 13:31:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO max) ([66.92.76.227]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 31 Jul 2002 13:31:09 -0000 Message-ID: <200207310931160879.04141365@mail.speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <2200.192.168.1.10.1028098693.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com> References: <2200.192.168.1.10.1028098693.squirrel@email.unixhideout.com> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.30.00.00 (4) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:31:16 -0400 Reply-To: jdarnold@buddydog.org From: "Jonathan Arnold" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking to learn the insides and outsides of /etc/periodic Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I want to learn more about /etc/periodic and how it works, can you reply >with some man pages i might refer to, and give me a small description of man -k or apropos is your friend. sh> man -k periodic periodic(8) - run periodic system functions periodic.conf(5) - periodic job configuration information which should give you a good place to start. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) The Incredible Brightness of Seeing, a Home Theater weblog http://jdarnold.tzo.com/HomeTheater To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message