From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 17 14:12:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08287 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA08277 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 14:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id WAA00601; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:00:38 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA01272; Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:45:13 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19971017224513.11883@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:45:13 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Stephane Raimbault Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daily, weekly, monthly References: <01bcdb32$6f34a4a0$aa6ebace@stephane.cybersurf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <01bcdb32$6f34a4a0$aa6ebace@stephane.cybersurf.net>; from Stephane Raimbault on Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 01:25:31PM -0600 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, Oct 17, 1997 at 01:25:31PM -0600, Stephane Raimbault wrote: > Hello, I have been tinkering with FreeBSD for a while now and was wondering how important is it to run daily, weekly, monthly. And also how would I go about setting up my system so that it does it automatically. Could you please use some CR's to format your text so it fits 80 column displays ? Thanks ;-) See /etc/crontab ... this is the main crontab file ... -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD'' andreas@klemm.gtn.com - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html andreas@FreeBSD.ORG - http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html