Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:06:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: DBoune@co.napa.ca.us (Boune, Damian) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 RELEASE - cron - permissions Message-ID: <199903170206.VAA02419@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <CA46FF404177D111A6B600609737B2B80100BEBB@exmail.co.napa.ca.us> from "Boune, Damian" at "Mar 16, 99 09:31:54 am"
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Boune, Damian wrote, > > I would like to force a run of the weekly cron job. I have looked at cron > and crontabs man files. Neither describe a way to do this. I used to just > type ./<file>. Now the permissions on the weekly(daily,monthly) have > changed. I'd prefer not changing around permissions just to force a run, in > my case, it would be asking for trouble. Is there another way? I don't know what you mean by changed permissions. The entire structure of the setup has changed. To run the various sets of scripts from the command line, % periodic type Where 'type' is 'daily,' 'weekly,' or 'monthly' (or a custom one). Anyway, that's how it is done in /etc/crontab. 'periodic' is a script located at /usr/sbin/periodic. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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