--- "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Dec
2002, Gary Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > I am curios: are the scripts 'daily', 'weekly', and 'monthly' run
> by
> > cron? They do not seem to execute on my system (1.6 upgraded from
> > 1.5.2) and I noticed that there is no default system crontab. How
> are
> > these scripts run periodically if not by cron?
> 
> Yes, these scripts are ran via cron. By default it is located
> at /var/cron/tabs/root (and seen with "crontab -u root -l".)
> 
> The crontab is available at
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/etc/crontab
> 
> If I recall correctly, there was a bug that removed root's crontab
> when
> upgrading to 1.6. (My journal for Oct. 8 says: "Since 1.6 upgrade
> toasted
> root's crontab and /var/backups of it, I redid it.")
> 
> (As for your build.sh problem, save the end of the build output and
> maybe
> use the -current list for discussion.)
> 
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
>

Thanks for the assistance! I was getting confused because the man pages
mentions /etc/crontab, but I noticed there was no such file and the
backup of /etc in /etc.old had no such file either so I wondered how
these scripts were run originally.

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