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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!pasteur.fr!oleane!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.utell.co.uk!usenet From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: daily, weekly, monthly auto-run ? Date: 8 May 1997 09:49:31 GMT Organization: Awfulhak Ltd. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5ks7jb$4q@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> References: <E9ttpE.B3H@nonexistent.com> <E9tz5u.J7G@nonexistent.com> Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: shift.utell.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40572 In article <E9tz5u.J7G@nonexistent.com>, jim@carroll.com (Jim C.) writes: > On Wed, 7 May 1997 19:52:17 GMT, jim@carroll.com (Jim C.) wrote: > >> >>I am having trouble figuring out who is running these three scripts: >> >> /etc/daily >> /etc/weekly >> /etc/monthly >> >>They seem to run at their appointed times (ie: daily runs at start of >>new day, weekly runs at start of new week , etc...). The thing is, I >>cannot find a cron entry for them. >> >>Could someone point me towards which process is running these? >>I hate having "automated" processes that I cannot trace down, sort >>of makes the system feel "out-of-control". > > > Ok, found it. These scripts are run by cron. What tricked me was > that they are not run in a user specific crontab entry. These entries > are stored in the special case crontab file /etc/crontab. > > Several passes through the man file for me, and a quick look into the > cron code didn't reveal it to me (hows that for dense). > > Thanks to Jon Smith (smith@metrocon.com) for pointing out my blunder > (thanks Jon 8-) I agree that it is rather un-intuitive to have two root crontabs available. > Jim C. > > -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org> <http://www.awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !