From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 16 18: 7:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9AF515217 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) id VAA02419; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:06:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199903170206.VAA02419@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: 3.1 RELEASE - cron - permissions In-Reply-To: from "Boune, Damian" at "Mar 16, 99 09:31:54 am" To: DBoune@co.napa.ca.us (Boune, Damian) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:06:40 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 ./. 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