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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!news.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: phantom cron jobs? Date: 13 Aug 1996 15:59:34 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4uq58m$ig@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <DvMD9G.EyD@alisa.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] John J. Rushford (wjjr@alisa.org) wrote: : I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.0 and have a question about some scripts that are : running: /etc/daily and /etc/weekly. : I can't track down what's running them. I can't find them in any crontabs. : Does anyone have any idea on how they are scheduled and is anything else : running as well? As lots of others have said, /etc/crontab is the culprit, but be careful ! There are two cron "systems" in place. The crontab command keeps stuff in /var/cron/jobs and cron itself looks in both places. It's always fun when you end up with the same crontab file in both places :( man cron for further details. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....