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

Gardner Bell gbell72 at rogers.com
Sat Jan 22 13:17:10 PST 2005


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
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