From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 16 16: 6:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1279737BA4B for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:06:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA08983 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:03:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA43164 for ; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:03:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200006162303.AAA43164@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: configuring periodic services Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:03:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I would like to implement an /etc/periodic.conf, /etc/defaults/periodic.conf scheme that will contain variables to control periodic jobs, in the same way that $clear_daily_* have just started doing in rc.conf. Initially I'll introduce a /etc/defaults/periodic.conf file with a bunch of stuff including replacements for $clear_daily_* and a /etc/periodic.conf (installed by sysinstall, not src/etc/Makefile) that contains a few comments and nothing else. The default file will contain tunables to make periodic jobs behave as they currently do and a man page will describe what's changable. I don't see any disagreement here (hah!), but think that there may be preferences for daily.conf/weekly.conf/monthly.conf instead. Personally I don't think that's necessary - not if the variables in periodic.conf all contain daily/weekly/monthly substrings. -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message