Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:41:32 +0200 From: Ertan Kucukoglu <ertank@ozlerplastik.com> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: crontab entries Message-ID: <38C3996C.83C2F7A3@ozlerplastik.com> References: <200002291211.HAA02326@server.baldwin.cx> <38C2565E.69DFB6F5@ozlerplastik.com> <20000305114958.D62310@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"Crist J. Clark" wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 02:43:10PM +0200, Ertan Kucukoglu wrote:
> > John Baldwin wrote:
> > >
> > > Alright, your crontab looks fine. However, my question is: how do you know
> > > that periodic is running your scripts on Sunday? You said that your modem
> > > dials out at 1:59 on Sunday, well, that is probably due to one of the
> > > weekly scripts in /etc/periodic/weekly/ needing net access for some reason,
> > > or perhaps a one of the daily scripts in /etc/periodic/daily/ needing
> > > net access.
> >
> > Hello again,
> >
> > After a week I'm here again. I checked my crontab I put some 'ps ax'
> > jobs. And see that something that I'm not sure runs my 'ppp -ddial
> > -alias isp' command in a way in the periodic *daily* scripts.
> >
> > I put one cron job before periodic daily script and one after that. I
> > see that I'm connected after that periodic daily scripts run. I also
> > checked if some weekly scripts connects me but I see that their running
> > time is different, 3:30.
> >
> > Now, I'll check to find out which script is running my ppp, or making it
> > to run.
>
> My guess,
>
> 440.status-mailq
>
> The mailq(1) is going to do DNS lookups.
> --
> Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com
The problem is before the 440.status-mailq. Here is the output of
periodic-daily:
-----
0 00:01:00
0 00:00:59
0 00:00:58
[snipped]
0 00:00:03
0 00:00:02
0 00:00:01
0 00:00:00
fetchmail: can't accept options while a background fetchmail is running.
Subject: www.ozler.com daily run output
Removing stale files from /var/preserve:
Cleaning out old system announcements:
Removing stale files from /var/rwho:
[snipped]
-----
I see here that periodic daily runs my /etc/rc.conf. I have delay
command in my rc.conf just after 'ppp -ddial -alias isp' command. The
seconds going down comes from delay command.
That file is run *before* 120.clean-preserve. "Removing stale files from
/var/preserve:" message is included in that file. So there is two files:
100.clean-disks
110.clean-tmps
I didn't see anything in that files and anyfile in /etc/periodic/daily/
that includes rc.conf or something related. (If anybody wants to look at
them I can mail these (or all) periodic daily files) My
/etc/periodic/daily files are original ones. I didn't change them.
Also I remember that 'periodic does not run non executable files',
/etc/rc.conf is not executable ("-rw-r--r--").
I also wish to know which directories are given as parameter to periodic
command in crontab?
Thanks,
--
Ertan Kucukoglu
ertank@ozlerplastik.com
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