From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 26 18:02:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23B1816A4CE for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:02:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lists.freedombi.com (mmsfarms.com [207.179.98.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE23A43D1D for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:02:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from charles@idealso.com) Received: by lists.freedombi.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 47BB872825; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:02:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from freedombi.com (localhost [192.168.10.108]) by lists.freedombi.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 2145572327; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:02:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 24.11.146.21 (SquirrelMail authenticated user charles) by freedombi.com with HTTP; Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:02:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33982.24.11.146.21.1093543373.squirrel@freedombi.com> In-Reply-To: <4197CC094B90018DA9D16E82@utd49554.utdallas.edu> References: <200408260007.26659.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <4197CC094B90018DA9D16E82@utd49554.utdallas.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:02:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles Ulrich" To: "Paul Schmehl" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on freedombi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.7 required=7.0 tests=BAYES_00,PRIORITY_NO_NAME autolearn=no version=2.63 cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: crontab question involving cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:02:56 -0000 Paul Schmehl said: > Just out of curiosity, why would you use cron rather than > /etc/periodic/daily? If you want something to run at a different time of day than the daily scripts. You could modify /etc/crontab and move the time around, but the rest of the scripts still follow and most of us have been trained to never monkey with files in /etc except a few. Also, typing 'crontab -e' is extremely simple when all you have to do is run a single command. -- Charles Ulrich System Administrator Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com