From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 23: 4:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.203.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B27137B405 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 23:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: by kabel203069.kabel.utwente.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5ECE91F88; Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:04:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 08:04:18 +0100 From: Rogier Steehouder To: Scott Gerhardt Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Periodic Daily Message-ID: <20011122080418.C576@localhost> Mail-Followup-To: Rogier Steehouder , Scott Gerhardt , FreeBSD 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 scott@gerhardt-it.com on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 06:48:18PM -0600 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 21-11-2001 18:48 (-0600), Scott Gerhardt wrote: > I would like to add some scripts to periodic daily, weekly etc. > What do the prefix numbers mean (i.e. 100 in 100.clean-disks)? > Do the numbers represent time, preferance etc.? > > Thanks The scripts in the /etc/periodic/*/ directories are run in alphabetical order. The numbers provide a simple means of specifying order of execution. With kind regards, Rogier Steehouder -- ___ _ -O_\ // | / Rogier Steehouder //\ / \ r.j.s@gmx.net // \ <---------------------- 25m ----------------------> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message