From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 10 0: 5:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B24237B402 for ; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:05:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.142.21.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.142.21] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16OaCz-00067u-00; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:05:10 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0A856e03344; Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 00:05:04 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: Info on periodic reporting configuration Message-ID: <20020110000504.A2105@blossom.cjclark.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 01:17:16PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message