Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?

2005-01-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
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 wo

Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?

2005-01-22 Thread Gardner Bell
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 li

Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?

2005-01-22 Thread Daniel Bye
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 l

Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?

2005-01-22 Thread Anthony Atkielski
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 a

Re: Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?

2005-01-22 Thread albi
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-

Who generates the daily, weekly, monthly reports on FreeBSD?

2005-01-22 Thread Anthony Atkielski
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