From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 9 9:57: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6844C37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64E343E09 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:57:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP id GQF37091; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:55:35 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B23FF5D03; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:57:02 -0700 (PDT) To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Thomas Seck , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:51:03 PDT." <200207091651.g69Gp3Lg052679@apollo.backplane.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 09:57:02 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020709165702.B23FF5D03@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 09:51:03 -0700 (PDT) > From: Matthew Dillon > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > > :* Jason Andresen (jandrese@mitre.org): > : > :[/etc/crontab vs. crontab -u root] > : > :> ??? More visible? New people to the system can never find that file. > :> Heck, I'm always forgetting where it is. It wouldn't be so bad if > :> it just weren't so inconsistent. > : > :See cron(8), second paragraph. > : > :-- > :Thomas Seck > : > > /etc/crontab should probably not be touched, nor should /etc/periodic, > or upgrading the system will be nightmware. If you want to use the > periodic mechanisms you can create your own periodic directory > hierarchy ala /usr/local/etc/periodic, and if you just want to mess > with your own root crontab you should use 'crontab -e' as root. If > you want to override the system default /etc/periodic you can create > your own /etc/periodic.conf (else the system uses the default > /etc/defaults/periodic.conf). > > It's simple. See man periodic.conf. Also, as far as I know, the use of local periodic(8) scripts via periodic.conf(5) entries in 999.local is supported. mergemaster(8) should catch changes in periodic.conf(5). R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message