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

[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 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       *       *       *       root    periodic daily
15      4       *       *       6       root    periodic weekly
30      5       1       *       *       root    periodic 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

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