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From: Roger Marquis <nospam..marquis@nospam..roble.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: daily, weekly, monthly auto-run ?
Date: 11 May 1997 05:29:25 GMT
Organization: Roble Systems (http://www.roble.com)
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In comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc geoffrey alexander <geoffrey@netins.net> wrote:
>In article <5ks7jb$4q@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, brian@awfulhak.org,
>>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.
>
>I agree that it is rather un-intuitive to have two root crontabs
>available.
>Let me second that (I won't admit how >I< discovered it :).
Here's a third. Following the KISS principle these scripts should be
run from the root crontab and maintained in /etc{/cron}/*ly.
Roger Marquis