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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 07:22:23 -0500
From: David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cron on personal machine
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Is periodic like anacron in linux?

Dave
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:24:04AM +0200, Christoph Sold wrote:
> 
> 
> David Yeh schrieb:
> > 
> > I have a personal computer running freebsd that I like to turn off to
> > save power, make less noise, etc.  How do I manually run the cron
> > scripts that are supposed to be run normally?  I know I read this
> > somewhere but i can't find the information anymore.
> 
> man periodic
> 
> periodic daily
> periodic weekly and
> periodic monthly
> 
> are the beasts.
> 
> HTH
> -Christoph Sold
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