Periodic Scripts

[Scott Gerhardt]

I have a number of web maintenance scripts (rotate logs, backups, systems
checks etc.).  Some of these scripts are run by periodic d/m/w and others
are run at specific times by cron.

My question is can I add a "periodic hourly" entry to crontab and create a
"/usr/local/etc/periodic/hourly" directory and put the hourly scripts in
this directory?  Will they be executed?

I don't want to pollute crontab with too many entries and I also want to
keep everything logical and well organized so that other SysAdmins
understand what I have done.  Where is the most logical standard place to
keep these custom scripts?

Any recommendations?


Thanks,


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Scott Gerhardt, P.Geo.
Gerhardt Information Technologies [G-IT]