Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 23:08:20 -0600 From: Scott Gerhardt <scott@g-it.ca> To: Anti <fearow@attbi.com>, Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic Scripts Message-ID: <BAA7E364.3E13%scott@g-it.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030326201958.6b163dcd.fearow@attbi.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 3/26/03 8:19 PM, "Anti" <fearow@attbi.com> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 20:11:57 +0000 > Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:42:44AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: >>> My question is can I add a "periodic hourly" entry to crontab and create a >>> "/usr/local/etc/periodic/hourly" directory and put the hourly scripts in >>> this directory? Will they be executed? >> Create a directory: >> >> /etc/periodic/hourly/ >> >> populating it with scripts in a manner similar to /etc/periodic/daily et al, >> then add variables into your /etc/periodic.conf file for the daily scripts >> and call it from cron using: >> >> 1 * * * * root periodic hourly >> >> in /etc/crontab. >> >> >> man periodic seems to suggest you can do this: > > > better to keep custom scripts under /usr/local/etc imo... the default > periodic.conf checks these directories as well as the ones under /etc... Yes, I agree that it would be best to keep all the custom scripts under /usr/local/etc, that is what I have been doing so far. Thanks for all your great comments! -- Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo. Gerhardt Information Technologies [G-IT]
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?BAA7E364.3E13%scott>