Subject: Re: FreeBSD's "periodic" script.
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/07/2000 10:10:57
On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Chris Jones reported that a friend told him:
>> FreeBSD has taken the root 'daily/weekly/monthly' reports and
>> wrapped them in a format similar to SysV's init/rc.d tree.
>> Basically you've got a script 'periodic' and a directory tree
>> /etc/periodic/{daily|weekly|monthly} which houses scripts named
>> according to a standard of {xxx}foo where xxx is an integer that
>> determines the order in which scripts get executed.

I suggest that people who want that functionality should look at Simon
Gerraty's configs tools, available from ftp.quick.com.au or the mirror
at ftp://ftp.telstra.com.au/mirror/ftp.quick.com.au/.

--apb (Alan Barrett)