From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 20 16:21:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA07774 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:21:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx2.cso.uiuc.edu (mx2.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA07633 for ; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 16:20:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu) Received: from alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (alecto.physics.uiuc.edu [130.126.8.20]) by mx2.cso.uiuc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA10678 for <@mailhost.uiuc.edu:stable@freebsd.org>; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:19:39 -0600 (CST) Received: by alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) for stable@freebsd.org id SAA05624; Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:15:47 -0600 From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Message-Id: <199802210015.SAA05624@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> Subject: /etc/crontab To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 18:15:47 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Since people are discussing what they want to see in 2.2.6, I decided to repeat my old posting since it went unnoticed (there were neither positive nor negative response to it) /etc/crontab: # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance 0 2 * * * root /etc/daily 2>&1 | sendmail root This script will not work once a year, and twice a day on another day, at most places in the world. (that happened to me once) I think, that 0:30 or 3:15, 4:30 is safer time. THere was one more little "annoyance", but could not recall right now. IgoR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message