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Date:      Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:29:00 +0000
From:      Nick Barnes <Nick.Barnes@pobox.com>
To:        Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: $HOME changed from 6.2 to 6.3 and 7.0 ?! 
Message-ID:  <74723.1204288140@thrush.ravenbrook.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080229121526.GB4309@wiz.vpn.offrom.nl>  from Willy Offermans <Willy@Offermans.Rompen.nl>  of "Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:15:26 %2B0100"

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At 2008-02-29 12:15:26+0000, Willy Offermans writes:

> Is /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/ not the place to put your daily
> executable scripts? What is daily.local about?

/etc/daily.local predates /etc/periodic/, somewhat.  It was introduced
in 1996.  Before that, there was just the /etc/daily script, which was
cut over to /etc/periodic/... some time in 1997.

God bless the FreeBSD project's careful approach to compatibility.

Nick B



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