crontab

[Matthew Seaman]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:55:54AM -0600, Chris wrote:
[ Redirecting output of cron jobs ]

> Very cool! Now, what if you do the same, but instead of the normal 
> crons, can something like this be done with the /etc/periodic/daily, 
> weekly, and monthly routines?

If you don't have one already, create a /etc/periodic.conf file, and
within it set some variables:

daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"
weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"
monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log"

This will direct the output to those log files, rather than e-mailing
to root.  If you use precisely those file names, the log files will be
automatically cycled by newsyslog(8).

Refer to /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for all the other stuff you can
modify.  /etc/periodic.conf has exactly the same relation to
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf as /etc/rc.conf does to
/etc/defaults/rc.conf.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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