From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 3 06:28:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 37E6516A407 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:28:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F7B43D78 for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:28:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0D2729B486; Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:58:17 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 15:58:16 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Xian Message-ID: <20060703062816.GO99490@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20060701125532.GA11839@pythagoras.physics.upatras.gr> <20060702232943.GC10845@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200607030657.29661.ian@codepad.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TYjWXklH5JTzT8n9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200607030657.29661.ian@codepad.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root crontab for backup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2006 06:28:24 -0000 --TYjWXklH5JTzT8n9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 3 July 2006 at 6:57:27 +0100, Xian wrote: > On Monday 03 July 2006 00:29, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> It's a good idea to leave /etc/periodic as it is; it makes updating >> easier. I personally put this sort of thing in /etc/crontab, though >> arguably (also because of upgrades) root's crontab is a better place. > > You can use /usr/ocal/etc/periodic ok It's a good idea to leave /etc/periodic as it is; it makes updating easier. But I think I said that. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --TYjWXklH5JTzT8n9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEqLkAIubykFB6QiMRAsFWAJ9wfYSWHD9ObHgO1zegtx6BjczKyQCbBJjF IDLXVMqgHZS3NEIXKl5qxPk= =AKNC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TYjWXklH5JTzT8n9--