| [note that i've removed the gnats lists from this discussion.  there's
| no reason for this to end up in the bug database.]

dunno about that, perhaps you should have added a tech- list.

| * all the jobs from /etc/{daily,weekly,monthly,security} can be little
| scripts unto themselves in a directory called, for example,
| /etc/periodic.d

I think they really need to be combined, actually, because
some of them run finds on the whole disk, and those should be combined
into one find, not multiple ones.

--jhawk