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* Clarify adjkerntz(8) note and use complete sentences in comments.tom2002-11-221-6/+5
| | | | | PR: misc/45493 Approved by: re (rwatson)
* Move the sendmail -q from cron to periodic, as suggested by a few people.peter2001-02-191-4/+0
| | | | | This has the benefit of adding a random start time element as daily processing takes a different amount of time on different machines.
* Manually run /usr/sbin/sendmail -q once a day. Folks seem to be toopeter2001-02-151-0/+4
| | | | | | | | trigger happy and turn off sendmail_enable entirely (instead of setting sendmail_flags to -q30m instead). I have seen boxes with things like daily run reports that have sat in mailq for 5 months. Since /usr/sbin/sendmail is actually mailwrapper, this should be safe for the other plugins that provide the sendmail calling interface.
* Move the process of storing entropy from /dev/random and reseeding withdougb2001-01-141-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | it at boot time closer to the way we want it to be in the final version. * Move the default directory to /var/db/entropy * Run the entropy saving cron job every 11 minutes. This seems to be a better default, although still bikeshed material. * Feed /dev/random some cheesy "entropy" from various commands and files before the disks are mounted. This gives /dev/random a better chance of running without blocking early. * Move the reseeding with previously stored entropy to the point immediately after the disks are mounted. * Make the harvesting script a little safer in regards to the possibility of accidentally overwriting something other than a regular file.
* Add a system to save entropy from /dev/random periodically so thatdougb2001-01-111-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at boot time to prevent long delays. For /etc/rc, remove the vmstat and iostat runs from the attempt to provide some cheesy randomness if the files fail, since those programs are dynamically linked, and ldd seems to want some randomness to do its magic. Guidance and parameters for this project were provided by Mark Murray, based on the requirements of the Yarrow algorithm. Some helpful suggestions for implementation (including the tip about iostat and vmstat) were provided by Sheldon Hearn. All blame for problems or mistakes is mine of course.
* Revert back to rev 1.24 as we have not come to a consensus if is is OKobrien2000-12-111-7/+4
| | | | | | | for a hung `daily' run to keep a `weekly' run from happening. Same for `monthly'. We have always run `weekly' and `monthly' reguardless of the execution status of `daily'. Until there is some consensus we should not change the behavior.
* Run all three maintenance script in succession, making sure they alwaysdes2000-12-111-4/+7
| | | | | | run on the right day but never overlap. Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
* On Sundays through Fridays, run daily at 03:01 am.des2000-12-101-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | On Saturdays, run daily and weekly sequentially, starting at 03:01 am. This prevents daily and weekly from overlapping, while running weekly as early as possible (i.e. as soon as daily finishes) to give it time to finish before monthly starts at 05:30 am. It's probably possible to do something similar with monthly, making it run as soon as daily (and possibly weekly, if the first of the month is a Saturday) finishes, but this is left as an exercise for the reader.
* Run weekly a little bit later to give more time for daily to completeobrien2000-12-081-1/+1
| | | | (since it starts later now).
* When to run the periodic/daily event has had several rounds of discussiondougb2000-11-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | over the past couple years. The most recent came to the general consensus that this was the best time, but no one actually made the change, so I'll don my asbestos undies and dive in. Please note that this time was chosen with input from people in various countries with various methods and schedules for switching to and from DST. There is no perfect time to schedule this job that works for everyone, but this time both A) Works for more people, and B) Causes problems for fewer people. And, ultimately, you can always change it if you need to.
* Another overhaul of the periodic stuff.brian2000-09-141-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All periodic sub-scripts <larf> now have their return codes interpreted by periodic(8). Output may be masked based on variable values in periodic.conf. It's also now possible to email periodic output to arbitrary addresses, or to send it to a log file, examples of which can be found in newsyslog.conf. The upshot of it all should be no discernable changes to the default behaviour of periodic(8). PR: 21250
* This was a mixed bag of spaces and ^I's.obrien1999-12-151-5/+5
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* $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$peter1999-08-271-1/+1
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* Move cronjob up one minute to get it out of the 02:00-03:00 happy hourphk1999-08-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | of daylight savings changes. Submitted by: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> Reviewed by: phk
* Run adjkerntz -a at 05:01 tooache1998-03-301-2/+2
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* Make the cutover to periodic and cron.d as discussed to death on committerspst1997-08-131-6/+6
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* Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$peter1997-02-231-1/+1
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* Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$jkh1997-01-141-1/+1
| | | | | | | | This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
* Remove un-necessary comment.nate1997-01-061-2/+1
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* Remove "msgs -c" line, already done in daily scriptache1996-01-061-4/+1
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* changed /etc/[daily,weekly,monthly] to not rotate the logfiles bygraichen1996-01-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | "hand", changed /etc/crontab to call /usr/sbin/newsyslog every hour (the entry was there before - but we haven't had any newsyslog until today :-) and changed /etc/inetd.conf to also contain (commentet out) entries for rpc.rquotad and rpc.sprayd (taken from NetBSD)
* Add commented out msgs database cleanup to crontabache1995-11-191-1/+4
| | | | Add -f (silent) flag to msgs call for logins (commented out)
* Eliminate two Subject: from *ly output, call sendmail root directlyache1995-05-271-4/+4
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* Call adjkerntz -a every half hour from 0 to 4 amache1994-11-021-1/+6
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* Remove adjkerntz callache1994-11-011-6/+1
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* Start adjkerntz at 3:01 instead of 3:00, it is too early for TZ change at 3:00ache1994-09-261-2/+2
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* As a result of the distribution crontab, /usr/libexec/atrun was being runsean1994-04-151-3/+3
| | | | | | only once an hour instead of every five minutes. This was due to a minute specification of 0/5 -- which should have been */5. This has been fixed. Expect your /var/cron/log to grow much faster now.
* This is Vixie cron 3.0. This version fixes all known security bugs.guido1994-01-221-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Further it implements crontab -e. I moved cron from /usr/libexec to /usr/sbin where most daemons are that are run from rc. That also gets rid of the ugly path crond used to have in ps(1) outputs. Further I renamed it to cron, as Paul Vixie likes it and is done by NetBSD. NOTE VERY WELL THE FOLLOWING: 1) Systems crontab changed. Every users crontab resides in /var/cron *EXCEPT* root's. This is a special crontab as it resides in /etc. Further it is the *ONLY* crontab file in which you specify usernames. See /usr/src/etc/crontab. This is also done by BSDI's BSD/386 as far as I know (they provided the patches for it anyway) 2) So you *must* delete root's crontab and reinstall the copy in /etc from /usr/src/etc. 'Must' is to much: the old installed crontab will work but cron will also try to 'run' /etc/crontab. 3) Last but not least: cron's logging is now done via syslog. Note that logging by cron is done lowercase when it logs about itsself and uppercase when it logs user events, like installing a new crontab. The default logfile file is the same as before: syslog.conf:cron.* /var/cron/log -Guido
* atrun uncommented.ache1994-01-081-2/+2
| | | | atrun interval changed to 5 minutes.
* Add adjkerntz to track time zone change.ache1994-01-041-1/+6
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* Cleaned up crontab from NetBSD, adjusted for FreeBSD.rgrimes1993-07-191-7/+20
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* Initial import of 386BSD 0.1 othersrc/etcrgrimes1993-06-201-0/+7
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