From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 14:05:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B12516A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:05:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailout1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A48143D2F for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barner@in.tum.de) Received: by zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7DF2E3F4F; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:05:44 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 23:05:43 +0200 From: Simon Barner To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040601210543.GA67327@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20040531222248.GA2494@oliverfuchs.ath.cx> <20040531230813.GD9354@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <20040601203042.GA2236@oliverfuchs.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040601203042.GA2236@oliverfuchs.ath.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at informatik.tu-muenchen.de Subject: Re: archivemail-0.6.1 not working as expected X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:05:22 -0000 --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > So to make it clear: If I want to run a cron job for a special user I use > crontab and otherwise to run a system-wide cron-job that is not defined by > FreeBSD itself I use /usr/local/etc/periodic? AFAICS /usr/local/etc/periodic is mainly used by ports, e.g. portaudit uses it to fetch its database every day. For your own system wide cron jobs, you could also use user cron tabs, e.g. root, nobody, ... depending on what you want to do. I think it's only a matter of taste. [...] > So thank you again for all your help and work Don't mention it -- the only thing I did was pasting my script :-) Simon --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAvO+nCkn+/eutqCoRAgi2AJ9hzk4htvQtGJ5iTBZGEu16umYFJQCePvRW XqtN2umY5/fEFyx2ghViBdc= =76ST -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --h31gzZEtNLTqOjlF--