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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!feeder.chicago.cic.net!mr.net!news.netins.net!geoffrey From: geoffrey@netins.net (geoffrey alexander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: daily, weekly, monthly auto-run ? Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 23:18:56 -0500 Organization: The alt.movies.kubrick Newsgroup Lines: 42 Message-ID: <geoffrey-ya023380000905972318560001@news.netins.net> References: <E9ttpE.B3H@nonexistent.com> <E9tz5u.J7G@nonexistent.com> <5ks7jb$4q@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: unin-01-06.dialup.netins.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.3 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40663 In article <5ks7jb$4q@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>, brian@awfulhak.org, brian@utell.co.uk wrote: > 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. Let me second that (I won't admit how >I< discovered it :). What can be done? It isn't necessary. Geoffrey Alexander geoffrey@iavalley.cc.ia.us