From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 18: 2:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (brea.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8C937B402 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 18:02:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by brea.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B54F2DDC88; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:02:13 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2922CI03919; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:02:12 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:02:12 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <200203090202.g2922CI03919@sheol.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: knews 1.0b.1 Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com Organization: if (!FIFO) if (!LIFO) break; References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDC62_phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu@ns.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDC62_phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu@ns.sol.net> From: hawkeyd@visi.com (D J Hawkey Jr) Subject: Re: Question about periodic... X-Original-Newsgroups: sol.lists.freebsd.questions To: REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 An afterthought... In article <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDC62_phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu@ns.sol.net>, REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG writes: > Hi! I just recently started using FreeBSD (ie, about 2 weeks ago). So this > might be a really simple answer... > > I want to have CVSup run weekly. I think that it would be nice to include the > output from this run with the rest of the "periodic"ly run scripts -- like the > security report that gets mailed to me every morning. An I understand, I need > to add a script to the weekly configuration for periodic. However, as this is a > local script, I should not add it to the /etc/periodic/weekly/ directory. There > seems to be references to two directories: /usr/local/etc/periodic/ and > /etc/weekly.local/ > > [SNIP] I have a cron job running that is quite apart from The FreeBSD Way Of Doing Things(tm). More specifically, I have a script that runs through the syslog file that 'ipmon' writes to, and adds entries found to the ipfilter rules, based on certain criteria. It maintains its own logfile. This script runs independantly of anything the FreeBSD distribution allows for or supports, but I wanted to see the result every morning. So I added a little "code" to /etc/security that reports the daily additions of that logfile. Perhaps this might be a more elegant solution for your situation? Dave -- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message