From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 16 16:20:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.25.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADEEC37B5B2 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:20:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ohoyer@fbwi.fh-wilhelmshaven.de) Received: from fettesau.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (stuwopc5.stuwo.fh-wilhelmshaven.de [139.13.209.5]) by mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA11957; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 01:19:54 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <4.1.20000617011658.00a5a9a0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> X-Sender: ohoyer@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 01:20:10 +0200 To: Brian Somers From: Olaf Hoyer Subject: Re: configuring periodic services Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200006162303.AAA43164@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 00:03 17.06.00 +0100, Brian Somers wrote: >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. Hi! Please help a poor beginner to understand the differences of the job cron does, and above picture... Or do you intend to help to get rid of cron for certain scenarii, thus increasing security of the system? Regards Olaf Hoyer -------- Olaf Hoyer www.nightfire.de mailto:Olaf.Hoyer@nightfire.de FreeBSD- Turning PC's into workstations ICQ:22838075 Liebe und Hass sind nicht blind, aber geblendet vom Feuer, dass sie selber mit sich tragen. (Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message