From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 17:01:20 2003 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 CA21B37B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 17:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C1A43FD7 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 17:01:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 75443 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2003 00:01:16 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Jun 2003 00:01:16 -0000 Message-ID: <3EE3CE4D.6080701@liwing.de> Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 02:01:17 +0200 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 (Compact - Build 2) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002f01c32e10$64a1b6e0$0200010a@orion> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Security Run Output E-Mails X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 00:01:21 -0000 On 6/9/2003 12:50 AM, Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: > Hey folks, > > I'm wondering if you can help me. I have a basic knowledge on UNIX and freebsd, and together with the advice of some friends, resources on the internet and an absolutely ridiculous amount of toil and sweat, i've managed to put together a somewhat secure firewall/gateway machine. I'm wondering you never read the handbook as it's recommented by your login message motd(5). > Now, at regular intervals, e-mails are sent to me by the machine... > > HOST.DOMAIN.TLD security run output > HOST.DOMAIN.TLD daily run output > HOST.DOMAIN.TLD weekly run output > HOST.DOMAIN.TLD monthly run output > > Now, I receive these e-mail regularly at differing times each day (as appropriate). For example, the security and the daily ones are sent a couple of minutes after 03:00am in the morning. The weekly one is sent a couple of minutes after 04:00am. The monthly one... 05:00am. > > What i want to know is *where* are these script execution times defined? If I want to change the monthly run output script to run at 05:30am (for example), where would I go? See crontab(5), crontab(1) and cron(8) > Thanks for your time. Jens