Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:19:58 -0600 From: Anti <fearow@attbi.com> To: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic Scripts Message-ID: <20030326201958.6b163dcd.fearow@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030326201157.GA7599@users.munk.nu> References: <BAA734A4.3DE3%scott@g-it.ca> <20030326201157.GA7599@users.munk.nu>
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:11:57 +0000 Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> wrote: > 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: better to keep custom scripts under /usr/local/etc imo... the default periodic.conf checks these directories as well as the ones under /etc...
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