From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 19:20:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA20816 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA20804 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 19:20:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-1.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.1]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id VAA11127; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:20:13 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA43973; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 20:41:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901080241.UAA43973@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: where should system cron scripts go? In-reply-to: Message from jbarbee@singular.com (John Barbee) of "Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:27:00 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 20:41:52 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Barbee writes: > hello, > i'm in the process of adding a number of shell and perl scripts to > perform system and network tasks. these scripts will be called > periodically by cron from root's crontab. what would be the most proper > place for these scripts? should i just put them in /etc/ with daily and > weekly? IMHO its root's cron job(s), and they are not standard system software, so I'd put them in root's home directory, /root. /root is also a good place to stash a spare copy of your kernel config file and other various and sundry things such as a spare /etc/fstab, /etc/hosts, ... -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message