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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.
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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.
>
>
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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