From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 22:32:38 2005 Return-Path: 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 B698616A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:32:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C3243D2D for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:32:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ian@codepad.net) Received: from [80.229.159.44] (helo=[192.168.0.4]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1CuexP-0004QL-Hq for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:51:15 +0000 From: Xian To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:32:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200501282232.35750.ian@codepad.net> Subject: custom periodic scripts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:32:39 -0000 How would I go about adding scripts to periodic? I particular I have a couple of scripts to fetch virus definitions and scan my system. I gathered the is a 'proper' way to do it by using /usr/local/etc/periodic but not how to do it. -- /Xian "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein