Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:11:57 +0000 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic Scripts Message-ID: <20030326201157.GA7599@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <BAA734A4.3DE3%scott@g-it.ca> References: <BAA734A4.3DE3%scott@g-it.ca>
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On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:42:44AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote:
> 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?
Create a directory:
/etc/periodic/hourly/
populating it with scripts in a manner similar to /etc/periodic/daily et al,
then add variables into your /etc/periodic.conf file for the daily scripts
and call it from cron using:
1 * * * * root periodic hourly
in /etc/crontab.
man periodic seems to suggest you can do this:
SYNOPSIS
periodic directory ...
<snip>
If an argument is an absolute directory name it is used as is, otherwise
it is searched for under /etc/periodic and any other directories speci-
fied by the local_periodic setting in periodic.conf(5) (see below).
The periodic program will run each executable file in the directory or
directories specified. If a file does not have the executable bit set,
it is silently ignored.
<snip>
Regards,
Jez
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