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Date:      Mon, 1 Jul 2002 15:08:08 -0700
From:      Mike Benjamin <mikeb@disturbed.org>
To:        ro0t <root@unixhideout.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How does /etc/daily.local run.
Message-ID:  <20020701220808.GD691@disturbed.org>
In-Reply-To: <CGEIKJFNGMJHCMFBJGJFAEHDCAAA.root@unixhideout.com>
References:  <CGEIKJFNGMJHCMFBJGJFAEHDCAAA.root@unixhideout.com>

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/etc/periodic/daily/999.local executes the /etc/daily.local as a shell
script.  Which means.. unless you're explicitly backgrounding processes
or something, the one at a time effect you desire is occurring.

--mikeb

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:16:29PM -0400, ro0t wrote:
: I have a few nightly commands i need to run every night, i write a lot of my
: own scripts that run and check permissions, and i also have a second freebsd
: box that serves nothing more then a backup server that my main server
: mirrors to via cvsup. I learned to do this via the new book FreeBSD
: unleashed page 537, if you are interested. Using cvsup to mirror my server
: saves me many many hours each week of backing up to CDR. My question is
: this. In /etc/daily.local there are several commands, does my mighty bsd box
: run them all at the same time, or does it wait until each is finished and
: start the next job? I need to know because if it does run them all at once
: it would most likely cause system instability, as well as lag the jobs, and
: cause some things not to run correctly due to the permission scripts running
: at that time. Im pretty sure it runs them one at a time but ill ask you guys
: to make certain. ;) thanks for any answers i recieve.
: 
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