Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?
Speaking of reports, how do the daily, monthly, and weekly reports output by FreeBSD get generated? I see nothing when I do a crontab -l from root, but there's stuff under /etc/crontab. Is there a schedule of cron stuff that gets run independently of any user, or how does it work? If I wanted to change when or how these reports are generated (I don't currently, but suppose I did), where would I go to modify it, since it doesn't seem to be part of root's crontab? -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Speaking of reports, how do the daily, monthly, and weekly reports output by FreeBSD get generated? I see nothing when I do a crontab -l from root, but there's stuff under /etc/crontab. check the /etc/periodic/ dir ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?
albi writes: a check the /etc/periodic/ dir I've seen it. But where does it run from? Supposedly you're not supposed to modify crontab files directly, but where do these jobs belong if crontab -l from root won't list them. Is there some sort of system crontab in addition to those for root and other users, or how does it work? -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:01:47PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: albi writes: a check the /etc/periodic/ dir I've seen it. But where does it run from? Supposedly you're not supposed to modify crontab files directly, but where do these jobs belong if crontab -l from root won't list them. Is there some sort of system crontab in addition to those for root and other users, or how does it work? /etc/crontab is indeed the system crontab. You can safely edit this one by hand. The following three lines are the ones you're interested in: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly Note the additional field, before the command is named. It determines which user the command runs as. See crontab(5) for more details. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: 3B9D 8BBB EB03 BA83 5DB4 3B88 86FC F03A 90A1 BE8F _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpKRxZceWtFk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?
On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:01:47PM +0100 Anthony Atkielski wrote: albi writes: a check the /etc/periodic/ dir I've seen it. But where does it run from? Supposedly you're not supposed to modify crontab files directly, but where do these jobs belong if crontab -l from root won't list them. Is there some sort of system crontab in addition to those for root and other users, or how does it work? The files from /etc/periodic run from /etc/crontab. Refer to lines 20-22 Gardner ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?
Daniel Bye wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:01:47PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: albi writes: a check the /etc/periodic/ dir I've seen it. But where does it run from? Supposedly you're not supposed to modify crontab files directly, but where do these jobs belong if crontab -l from root won't list them. Is there some sort of system crontab in addition to those for root and other users, or how does it work? /etc/crontab is indeed the system crontab. You can safely edit this one by hand. The following three lines are the ones you're interested in: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly Note the additional field, before the command is named. It determines which user the command runs as. See crontab(5) for more details. Dan As well as periodic(8), which is an excellent exposition on the subject (if you read manpages at all ... it's real nice compared to some :-) Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
