From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 9 21:21:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21BE9CCD20 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:21:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from lb2-smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net (lb2-smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net [194.109.24.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "*.xs4all.nl", Issuer "GlobalSign Domain Validation CA - SHA256 - G2" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F19E1F11 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 21:21:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.home ([83.162.243.5]) by smtp-cloud2.xs4all.net with ESMTP id F9LC1r00H07iGuj019LDfJ; Wed, 09 Sep 2015 23:20:13 +0200 Received: by slackbox.erewhon.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 4FCCF1243F; Wed, 9 Sep 2015 23:20:12 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 23:20:12 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: reg@dwf.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron.d / cron.weekly Message-ID: <20150909212012.GA72256@slackbox.erewhon.home> Mail-Followup-To: reg@dwf.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <201509080543.t885hVCM032666@deneb.dwf.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201509080543.t885hVCM032666@deneb.dwf.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 21:21:27 -0000 --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 11:43:31PM -0600, reg@dwf.com wrote: > > Linux like systems have a directories cron.{daily,weekly,...} > where you can put scripts to run daily/weekly, etc. > > I will assume that FreeBSD has something similar=20 > but I don't see it (or haven't loaded the appropriate > package). It's called periodic(8). Self-written scripts should go in the subdirectori= es under /usr/local/etc/periodic/. Use the scripts in /etc/periodic/* as examples. The name of the scripts sta= rts with a number to determine the order in which the scripts are run. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAABCAAGBQJV8KJ7AAoJEED21dyjijPgg/sP/0UsAMDV6ykbCVi6JdBedr6t 8S9px8Eu4141qmRw/7b3yvIrLhVOhb//bO0F/lofw9uG3BHl42nQVRi6vL0cN+Lt eVlBQEpu4p7C3o+OhdWiH3KP1aK/2gYnEenQwdE++/39lJMfH/Eex6AchNjfY5F3 7TMdnrLk6tZ6NC1t9NmJrSw7f63UrMk+rDa0xeK268XpkVlpzZKqG3BOYr54dq9c EeuexnBvkRpZPFHGzUEN78otvC9weT1Gsy2qDOUwhv2+DZ3DK1G0nfU3VXpnEw48 16XL3Y46JZ7EdcTz3tCmRJngQypz3HxMbMDUE3avZQtsAvK9jVRpRaQz6erUrn/6 yNmjImWK/Jm1lGVspeqVKkNDuzysPFaPVzj7vQF1KHUMHT6Pju2u/u93IWEihGRz nRnasmYDLdLcSpF2LphvcTtaCRDsILX2yKBONR/6VVfjZ+9im5OcXshrymFsPZjO B/5I9B3nAKMTrJNX+jwnpH1cawBNTGhCAIQ3Jq1yWQUXCmTtsamDXHq/EVy8tpxK piitJKVvI9hVt2SaR8VRNJqOl2wfLOGhc5KESI/M7YDZ3M/HZjusBkAoqRPKQ9Su lEPz6l5AapXWyElyKOovTwNft085D+Hd5lcqr5buebMxvbQY3QU15usiqvVsVTis jaaiZdmz59tFm8TIIrye =n5/r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c--