Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:15:26 +0200 From: Thomas Seck <tmseck@netcologne.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? Message-ID: <20020709211526.GB778@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> In-Reply-To: <20020709165702.B23FF5D03@ptavv.es.net> References: <200207091651.g69Gp3Lg052679@apollo.backplane.com> <20020709165702.B23FF5D03@ptavv.es.net>
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* Kevin Oberman (oberman@es.net):
> Also, as far as I know, the use of local periodic(8) scripts via
> periodic.conf(5) entries in 999.local is supported.
Yes it is.
I assume that BSD traditionally used /etc/{daily,weekly,monthly}(.local)
where FreeBSD uses periodic(8). I do not know it for sure because I
started using BSD just two years ago when FreeBSD 4.0 came out so feel
free to correct me if you know better.
Thus I guess the hook in periodic.conf for local scripts in /etc is for
backwards compatibility and to not violate POLA.
NetBSD uses /etc/{daily,weekly,monthly} - and NetBSD does not use
/etc/crontab in a default install, although their cron(8) would read it
if it were there, at least this is what the manpage states.
> mergemaster(8) should catch changes in periodic.conf(5).
No it does not - /etc/periodic.conf does not exist in a default install.
You have to check the assignments you make in /etc/{rc,periodic}.conf
against their counterparts in /etc/defaults/ after an update.
mergemaster at least does a sanity check for rc.conf via the new
option "-C" (it was introduced because of the changes in the sendmail
infrastructure).
--
Thomas Seck
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