Periodic Scripts

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On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:42:44 -0600
Scott Gerhardt <scott at g-it.ca> wrote:

> 
> 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?


yes, this would work just fine...