atacontrol spindown

[Alexander Popov]

Hi, Paul,

Below is my /etc/crontab. The only thing that is run at 3 am is periodic daily.

# /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD
#
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32.32.1 2008/11/25 02:59:29 kensmith Exp $
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute hour    mday    month   wday    who     command
#
*/5     *       *       *       *       root    /usr/libexec/atrun
#
# Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot.
*/11    *       *       *       *       operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy
#
# Rotate log files every hour, if necessary.
0       *       *       *       *       root    newsyslog
#
# Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
1       3       *       *       *       root    periodic daily
15      4       *       *       6       root    periodic weekly
30      5       1       *       *       root    periodic monthly
#
# Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to
# UTC time.  See adjkerntz(8) for details.
1,31    0-5     *       *       *       root    adjkerntz -a



--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: atacontrol spindown
> To: aopopov at yahoo.com
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org, "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse at gmx.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 2:58 PM
> On 4/29/09, Alexander Popov <aopopov at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Daniel,
> >
> > It must be periodic(8), but I have trouble identifying
> what exactly could be
> > the trigger. If I look at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf,
> it has
> > daily_clean_disks_enable="NO".
> > With respect to daily checks, I just have the default
> setup, nothing that I
> > added myself.
> >
> > Are there any other configuration options that I
> should look at?
> 
> /etc/crontab
> 
> -- 
> Paul