Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:16:06 +0000 From: Daniel Bye <freebsd-questions@slightlystrange.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20050122211606.GA18278@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <1036176692.20050122220147@wanadoo.fr> References: <1811797765.20050122212403@wanadoo.fr> <41F2B71C.1060203@scii.nl> <1036176692.20050122220147@wanadoo.fr>
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--/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:01:47PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > albi writes: >=20 > a> check the /etc/periodic/ dir >=20 > I've seen it. But where does it run from? Supposedly you're not > supposed to modify crontab files directly, but where do these jobs > belong if crontab -l from root won't list them. Is there some sort of > "system" crontab in addition to those for root and other users, or how > does it work? /etc/crontab is indeed the "system" crontab. You can safely edit this one by hand. The following three lines are the ones you're interested in: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly Note the additional field, before the command is named. It determines which user the command runs as. See crontab(5) for more details. Dan --=20 Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB8sKWhvzwOpChvo8RAjdMAJ40qRO3kI3vLwIzx4Qmd469DPmjZACgjwY+ ZJpvA3m8axoWlg3jBc0pvx8= =AI41 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--
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