From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 11:57:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15384 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:57:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horton.iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15178 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:56:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@horton.iaces.com) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA21018; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:55:40 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199803121955.NAA21018@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Security To: efb@cotdazr.org Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:55:39 -0600 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980312173848.7432.qmail@cotdazr.org> from "efb@cotdazr.org" at "Mar 12, 98 05:38:48 pm" X-Organization: USWEST !nterprise Networking - ACES X-Phone: (612) 664-3385 X-Fax: (612) 664-4779 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55413 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (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 In a previous message, efb@cotdazr.org said: > > Noticed that there is NO ROOT CRONTAB .. to launch .. Daily, > Weekly, Monthly, Security jobs .. what is the mechanism and where > do I affect the mailto .. ?? Thnx /Ev/ FreeBSD crons is a combination of BSD and SYSV. Root's cron jobs reside in /etc/crontab whereas others (and root could to) have crontabs in /var/cron/tabs You'll find daily, weekly and monthly called from /etc/crontab. Security is called from daily. -- The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. -- From an article on the growth of federal regulations in the Oct. 24th issue of National Review To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message