From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 22:32: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f141.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.31.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA2937B41B for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:32:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:32:00 -0800 Received: from 66.75.100.186 by pv1fd.pav1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:32:00 GMT X-Originating-IP: [66.75.100.186] From: "Lee Mark Mercado" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: daily routine in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:32:00 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Mar 2002 06:32:00.0487 (UTC) FILETIME=[C680BF70:01C1CF0F] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i have this file to run every night, so i put it in /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily ... isnt it that the cron should run it also the way it runs /etc/periodic/daily files ? the file is csvupfile that updates the ports collection. Also, how will i know if the cron did run the file and updated the ports collection ? my /etc/crontab file is unaltered and im running 4.5-stable branch _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message