Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 03:04:25 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: adding to periodic/weekly Message-ID: <19990728030422.I7349@welearn.com.au>
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I want to add some maintenance tasks to be run weekly (maybe daily ones too).
There seem to be at least five ways to do this:
Just add it to the system crontab
- Can run at a different time, if necessary. Leaves periodic unmolested.
- Separates it from other weeklies, could become lost or confusing.
Add it to /etc/periodic/weekly/999.local
- This might be what the file is intended for.
- Maybe I shouldn't clutter that file.
Create /etc/weekly.local and put it in there
- It's tempting because 999.local picks it up if present.
- Comment says this is only for backward compatibility.
Add another file /etc/periodic/weekly/<high number>.whatever
- Can keep it away from existing sequence, or insert if necessary
- Future upgrades might add files using the numbers I choose
Put it in a numbered file under /usr/local/etc/periodic/weekly/
- This seems to be what it's intended for, but nobody said I could
- Path is already in rc.conf but doesn't exist, not sure why not used
- Can't find doc on its use, e.g. run in path order? unique numbers required?
Which method is generally best, and why?
Are any of these methods really naughty?
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Regards,
-*Sue*-
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