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Date:      Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:05:04 -0800
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Info on periodic reporting configuration
Message-ID:  <20020110000504.A2105@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIENPCLAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:17:16PM -0500
References:  <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOIENPCLAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:17:16PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> Looking for descriptive information on how the periodic 
> reporting system functions. 
> Can anyone point me to a How-to document?

Do you mean how the daily, weekly, and monthly (and security too in
CURRENT) periodic(8) scripts work? See periodic(8) and read the
actual scripts in the /etc/periodic subdirecories. /usr/sbin/periodic
itself is also a shell script, BTW.
-- 
"It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's hilarious."

Crist J. Clark                     |     cjclark@alum.mit.edu
                                   |     cjclark@jhu.edu
http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/    |     cjc@freebsd.org

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