From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 26 08:43:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68F737B404 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:43:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from blue.gerhardt-it.com (gw.gerhardt-it.com [204.83.38.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F0743FF2 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 08:42:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@g-it.ca) Received: from [24.71.178.119] (h24-71-178-119.ss.shawcable.net [24.71.178.119]) by blue.gerhardt-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01FB6FD96 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:42:52 -0600 (CST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:42:44 -0600 From: Scott Gerhardt To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=USER_AGENT version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Periodic Scripts X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 16:43:04 -0000 I have a number of web maintenance scripts (rotate logs, backups, systems checks etc.). Some of these scripts are run by periodic d/m/w and others are run at specific times by cron. My question is can I add a "periodic hourly" entry to crontab and create a "/usr/local/etc/periodic/hourly" directory and put the hourly scripts in this directory? Will they be executed? I don't want to pollute crontab with too many entries and I also want to keep everything logical and well organized so that other SysAdmins understand what I have done. Where is the most logical standard place to keep these custom scripts? Any recommendations? Thanks, -- Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies [G-IT]