From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 08:54:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0DDE16A418 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:54:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2983113C457 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:54:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id lBJ8sc3l001031; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:54:39 GMT (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4768DC4E.7040204@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:54:38 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071122) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jekillen References: <5a2c16f29fb14c6ffaaad04d4db4e7e5@prodigy.net> In-Reply-To: <5a2c16f29fb14c6ffaaad04d4db4e7e5@prodigy.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:54:40 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/5177/Wed Dec 19 07:03:02 2007 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: periodic.conf X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 08:54:45 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 jekillen wrote: > I copied a periodic.conf file from a v6.0 system to > a v6.2 system. > Is there any incompatibility that I should be aware of? Assuming you're not talking about /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, then it is unlikely you will have any problems. All that the stuff in periodic.conf does is set values for a number of shell variables. Those only make a difference if any of the periodic scripts refer to them -- otherwise they are harmless. The only thing that could hurt you is if the meaning of a particular variable changed significantly between 6.0 and 6.2. That is something which would not be allowed to happen by the FreeBSD project just as a matter of good engineering practice. Even so, you should sanity check what is set in your /etc/periodic.conf with the entries in /etc/defaults/periodic.conf - -- everything you can set to affect periodic scripts that come with the base system is documented there, and it's fairly well commented so you can work out what changes you need to make easily. Externally supplied periodic scripts usually contain some documentation of their settable variables within themselves. As /etc/periodic.conf should contain only the overrides from the default settings, this is unlikely to be a particularly taxing enterprise. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHaNxO8Mjk52CukIwRCOcDAJ96TPyFJTAEQOm125BIowplFx1kpQCfYmUC FQHg0Q5ArIHmhpUCcT/8PR0= =uVoP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----