From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 13: 8:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web125.yahoomail.com (web125.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0362D1539E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:08:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from osiris2002@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 12791 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Jan 2000 21:08:17 -0000 Message-ID: <20000103210817.12790.qmail@web125.yahoomail.com> Received: from [208.14.5.212] by web125.yahoomail.com; Mon, 03 Jan 2000 13:08:17 PST Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 13:08:17 -0800 (PST) From: Joss Roots Subject: HELP: cron & /etc/periodic question. To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, I am running LATEST 3.4- as of yesterday. I added a small script: /etc/periodic/daily/500.systemupdate owned by root:wheel I set its permissions to be -rwxr-xr-x this script runs 2 simple scripts from /root/scripts both are excutable #!/bin/sh - /root/scripts/sysupdate /root/scripts/portsget I have the default /etc/crontab which runs periodic daily among other stuff cron can't seem to run the scripts /etc/periodic/daily/500.systemupdate for some reason. anything else I have to do to add local or custom crontab jobs like this ? I did a killall -HUP crontab and nothing. help. thanks. ===== MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message