From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 10 14:35:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F19837B69B for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:35:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 99894 invoked by uid 100); 10 Jan 2001 22:35:36 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14940.58296.189854.67894@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 16:35:36 -0600 (CST) To: Christopher Farley Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crontab In-Reply-To: <117998518@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Farley types: > Does anybody have a strong preference between /etc/crontab or root's > personal crontab for routine system maintenance chores like backups, > cvsup, etc? For crontab stuff, I use roots "personal crontab" for the same reason you do: > I've been using the 'personal crontab' approach to avoid having to merge > /etc/cron after an update... However, for periodic things (backups, maintenance, etc.), I use /usr/local/etc/periodic. Make sure that local_periodic is set appropriately in rc.conf, and just link the shell scripts into it. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message