From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 9 14:18: 8 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 CE93D37B400 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.netcologne.de (smtp.netcologne.de [194.8.194.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B9243E3B for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:18:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmseck@netcologne.de) Received: from localhost (xdsl-213-168-110-105.netcologne.de [213.168.110.105]) by smtp.netcologne.de (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g69LHwGN024531 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:17:59 +0200 (MEST) Received: (qmail 928 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Jul 2002 21:15:26 -0000 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 23:15:26 +0200 From: Thomas Seck To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No root crontab in 4.6-RELEASE? Message-ID: <20020709211526.GB778@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200207091651.g69Gp3Lg052679@apollo.backplane.com> <20020709165702.B23FF5D03@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020709165702.B23FF5D03@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: private site in Germany X-PGP-KeyID: DF46EE05 X-PGP-Fingerprint: A38F AE66 6B11 6EB9 5D1A B67D 2444 2FE1 DF46 EE05 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 * 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 This message was sent to a mailinglist I am subscribed to. Please send your replies to the list - and do *not* CC me. Thank you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message