From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 29 13:11:44 2009 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 EE9E61065675 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:11:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aopopov@yahoo.com) Received: from web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94C008FC1E for ; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:11:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aopopov@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 86946 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Apr 2009 13:11:43 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1241010703; bh=WsnGlpXgArOktSSvDx8PPmEYN1GO+XAilbP7bSvOthY=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=tNH/8U3qmrUECn5Zv+v5Stj8+toQtR1izp1mM54Zq+NbQA/41aKNfGzFe8vutaMWpfpQdedk23ByMX5A7pV6/d2PUlSw/WFVCod29NIfYxha1Q/+yPKWK2Qsqv//b7UX5xbNz4pD4RrxLEXMlbz9FUeUJzFyzNpD1tDyxd/hAco= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=PJo9QAQXigugOHEo4IVoxsaRtUD7+4Nq9VL8E9I+k/W0PZs8MKqleLP6S43UKhQp4cuZcOZFJJUMI0YrzksBq/lh5xmSNghVNERoEz/6D1d+cHMTiu9UWd+w/SKylcZPjBQ63RBWcawymnE914OeT7JiUp0ckfFrB3/jHXZY1o0=; Message-ID: <892451.85852.qm@web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: 1Uw5zvwVM1ncdb5xjxeRcB7sNkNzTOvWs8xf1KyqLITwgKf__PnonJtyaDf5CALv1My2QNXCa6eAKsrnPx.RhtgENn1WXin5sqMWeHHNRk5k6Xn5dwbi0YEnuGx9c3BVgRi0vlsTBz5VLAHaTiE_z_wXF6KqQ.xarhBdtrtM5qEubzl_zt0k8nzlmWjqz1HCxtMkntxX0vsUsbdxO2gMZxrHP5d1w7RsxC07eJGlviASj_BC5XjoujJXvJWj6vpHuWWwn7MH0nkYJfdu9nxtLvxiQQwZm2g9GSIh7psAS1zE Received: from [193.173.39.45] by web51402.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:11:43 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.289.1 Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 06:11:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Alexander Popov To: "Paul B. Mahol" In-Reply-To: <3a142e750904290558k3fa85c57sb8675172907c79b6@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Daniel C. Dowse" Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: aopopov@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:11:45 -0000 Hi, Paul, Below is my /etc/crontab. The only thing that is run at 3 am is periodic daily. # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32.32.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $ # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log # #minute hour mday month wday who command # */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun # # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot. */11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy # # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary. 0 * * * * root newsyslog # # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly # # Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to # UTC time. See adjkerntz(8) for details. 1,31 0-5 * * * root adjkerntz -a --- On Wed, 4/29/09, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > From: Paul B. Mahol > Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown > To: aopopov@yahoo.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Daniel C. Dowse" > Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 2:58 PM > On 4/29/09, Alexander Popov wrote: > > > > Hi, Daniel, > > > > It must be periodic(8), but I have trouble identifying > what exactly could be > > the trigger. If I look at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, > it has > > daily_clean_disks_enable="NO". > > With respect to daily checks, I just have the default > setup, nothing that I > > added myself. > > > > Are there any other configuration options that I > should look at? > > /etc/crontab > > -- > Paul