From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 22 21:53:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB1B1106566C for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:53:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968458FC13 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:53:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m3MLpstH088807; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:51:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m3MLprUm088806; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:51:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:51:53 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: Robert Huff Message-ID: <20080422215153.GA88783@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <36b22dcf9403783aa82cb84ac8a886aa@localhost> <20080422111826.GA26749@ozzmosis.com> <20080422163456.285ad902@scorpio> <20080422205618.GA76601@ozzmosis.com> <18446.21165.998622.980633@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18446.21165.998622.980633@jerusalem.litteratus.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: andrew clarke , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab @reboot directive X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:53:51 -0000 On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 05:03:41PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > > andrew clarke writes: > > > > > @reboot /usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 120 > > > > > > Is there a specific reason that you choose to do that rather than > > > starting it by adding: fetchmail_enable="YES" to the /etc/rc.conf file? > > > > Since I have root access on that machine, yes I could do that. But > > for my particular setup I couldn't see any advantage. Plus, the less > > I need to edit system-wide config files, the better, I think. > > I'm confused: how is /etc/rc.conf any more a "system-wide > config file" than /etc/crontab? I think it would be a matter of convention and way of speaking. Configuration settings values are done in /etc/rc.conf. The crontab file contains directions to run specific things at specific times. Setting these things up is a type of configuration activity, of course, but not the way it is in rc.conf. ////jerry > > Robert Huff > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"