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.\"-
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
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.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd June 22, 2000
.Dt PERIODIC.CONF 5
.Os FreeBSD 5.0
.Sh NAME
.Nm periodic.conf
.Nd periodic job configuration information.
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The file
.Nm periodic.conf
contains a description of how daily, weekly and montly system maintenance
jobs should run.
It resides in the
.Pa /etc/defaults
directory and parts may be overridden by a file of the same name in
.Pa /etc ,
which itself may be overridden by the
.Pa /etc/periodic.conf.local
file.
.Pp
.Nm
is actually sourced as a shell script from each of the periodic scripts
and is intended to simply provide default configuration variables.
.Pp
The following list provides a name and short description for each
variable you can set in the
.Nm
file.
.Bl -tag -offset 4n -width 2n
.It Ar local_periodic
(str) List of directories to search for periodic scripts.
.El
.B Daily variables
.Pp
The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in
.Pa /etc/periodic/daily :
.Bl -tag -offset 4n -width 2n
.It Ar daily_clean_disks_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to remove all files matching
.Ar daily_clean_disks_files
daily.
.It Ar daily_clean_disks_files
(str) Set to a list of file names to match.
Wild cards are permitted.
.It Ar daily_clean_disks_days
(int) When
.Ar daily_clean_disks_enable
is set to
.Dq YES ,
this must also be set to the number of days old that a file's access
and modification times must be before it's deleted.
.It Ar daily_clean_disks_verbose
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Ar daily_clean_tmps_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to clear temporary directories daily.
.It Ar daily_clean_tmps_dirs
(str) Set to the list of directories to clear if
.Ar daily_clean_tmps_enable
is set to
.Dq YES .
.It Ar daily_clean_tmps_days
(int) When
.Ar daily_clean_tmps_enable
is set, this must also be set to the number of days old that a file's access
and modification times must be before it's deleted.
.It Ar daily_clean_tmps_ignore
(str) Set to the list of files that should not be deleted when
.Ar daily_clean_tmps_enable
is set to
.Dq YES .
Wild card characters are permitted.
.It Ar daily_clean_tmps_verbose
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Ar daily_clean_preserve_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you wish to remove old files from
.Pa /var/preserve .
.It Ar daily_clean_preserve_days
(num) Set to the number of days that files must not have been modified before
they are deleted.
.It Ar daily_clean_preserve_verbose
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Ar daily_clean_msgs_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you old system messages to be purged.
.It Ar daily_clean_msgs_days
(num) Set to the number of days that files must not have been modified before
they are deleted.
If this variable is left blank, the
.Xr msgs 1
default is used.
.It Ar daily_clean_rwho_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you wish old files in
.Pa /var/who
to be purged.
.It Ar daily_clean_rwho_days
(num) Set to the number of days that files must not have been modified before
they are deleted.
.It Ar daily_clean_rwho_verbose
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Ar daily_clean_hoststat_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you wish old files in
.Pa /var/spool/.hoststat
to be purged.
.It Ar daily_clean_hoststat_days
(num) Set to the number of days that files must not have been modified before
they are deleted.
.It Ar daily_clean_hoststat_verbose
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Ar daily_backup_passwd_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the
.Pa /etc/master.passwd
and
.Pa /etc/group
files backed up and reported on.
Reporting consists of checking both files for modifications and running
.Xr chkgrp 8
on the
.Pa group
file.
.It Ar daily_backup_aliases_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the
.Pa /etc/aliases
file backed up and modifications to be displayed in your daily output.
.It Ar daily_backup_distfile_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the
.Pa /etc/Distfile
file backed up and modifications to be displayed in your daily output.
.It Ar daily_calendar_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Ic calendar -a
daily.
.It Ar daily_accounting_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to rotate your daily accounting files.
No rotations are necessary unless
.Ar accounting_enable
is enabled in
.Xr rc.conf 5 .
.It Ar daily_accounting_compress
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want your daily accounting files to be compressed using
.Xr gzip 1 .
.It Ar daily_distfile_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Xr rdist 1
daily.
The
.Pa /etc/Distfile
file must also exist.
.It Pa daily_news_expire_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /etc/news.expire .
.It Pa daily_uuclean_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /etc/uuclean.daily .
.It Ar daily_status_disks_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Xr df 1
.Po
with the arguments supplied in
.Ar daily_status_disks_df_flags
.Pc
and
.Ic dump W .
.It Ar daily_status_disks_df_flags
(str) Set to the arguments for the
.Xr df 1
utility when
.Ar daily_status_disks_enable
is set to
.Dq YES .
.It Ar daily_status_uucp_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /etc/uuclean.daily .
.It Ar daily_status_network_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Ic netstat -i .
.It Ar daily_status_network_usedns
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Xr netstat 1
without the
.Fl n
option (to do DNS lookups).
.It Ar daily_status_rwho_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Xr uptime 1
(or
.Xr ruptime 1
if
.Ar rwhod_enable
is set to
.Dq YES
in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf ).
.It Ar daily_status_mailq_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Xr mailq 1 .
.It Ar daily_status_mailq_shorten
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to shorten the
.Nm mailq
output when
.Ar daily_status_mailq_enable
is set to
.Dq YES .
.It Ar daily_status_security_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /etc/security .
.It Ar daily_status_security_inline
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /etc/security
inline.
The alternative is to run it as a background job, mailing the output to
.An root .
.It Ar daily_status_security_noamd
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to ignore
.Xr amd 8
mounts when comparing against yesterdays filesystem mounts.
.It Ar daily_status_security_nomfs
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to ignore
.Xr mfs 8
mounts when comparing against yesterdays filesystem mounts.
.It Ar daily_status_mail_rejects_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to summarise mail rejections logged to
.Pa /var/log/maillog
for the previous day.
.It Ar daily_status_mail_rejects_logs
(num) Set to the number of maillog files that should be checked
for yesterday's mail rejects.
.It Ar daily_local
(str) Set to a list of extra scripts that should be run after all other
daily scripts.
All scripts must be absolute path names.
.El
.Pp
The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in
.Pa /etc/periodic/weekly :
.Bl -tag -offset 4n -width 2n
.It Ar weekly_clean_kvmdb_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to purge old
.Pa /var/db/kvm_*.db
files.
The kvm file for the current kernel will not be purged.
.It Ar weekly_clean_kvmdb_days
(num) Set to the number of days that the file must not have been accessed
before being deleted.
.It Ar weekly_clean_kvmdb_verbose
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output.
.It Ar weekly_uucp_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /usr/libexec/uucp/clean.weekly .
.It Ar weekly_locate_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb .
This script is run using
.Ic nice -5
as user
.An nobody ,
and generates the table used by the
.Xr locate 1
command.
.It Ar weekly_whatis_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local .
This script regenerates the database used by the
.Xr apropos 1
command.
.It Ar weekly_catman_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to run
.Pa /usr/libexec/catman.local .
This script processes all out of date man pages, speeding up the
.Xr man 1
command at the expense of disk space.
.It Ar weekly_noid_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to locate orphaned files on the system.
An orphaned file is one with an invalid owner or group.
.It Ar weekly_noid_dirs
(str) A list of directories under which orphaned files are searched for.
This would usually be set to
.Pa / .
.It Ar weekly_status_pkg_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to use
.Xr pkg_version 1
to list installed packages which are out of date.
.It Ar weekly_local
(str) Set to a list of extra scripts that should be run after all other
weekly scripts.
All scripts must be absolute path names.
.El
.Pp
The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in
.Pa /etc/periodic/monthly :
.Bl -tag -offset 4n -width 2n
.It Ar monthly_accounting_enable
(bool) Set to
.Dq YES
if you want to do login accounting using the
.Xr ac 8
command.
.It Ar monthly_local
(str) Set to a list of extra scripts that should be run after all other
monthly scripts.
All scripts must be absolute path names.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
.It Pa /etc/defaults/periodic.conf
The default configuration file.
This file contains all default variables and values.
.It Pa /etc/periodic.conf
The usual system specific variable override file.
.It Pa /etc/periodic.conf.local
An additional override file, useful when
.Pa /etc/periodic.conf
is shared or distributed.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr apropos 1 ,
.Xr calendar 1 ,
.Xr df 1 ,
.Xr gzip 1 ,
.Xr locate 1 ,
.Xr man 1 ,
.Xr msgs 1 ,
.Xr netstat 1 ,
.Xr nice 1 ,
.Xr pkg_version 1 ,
.Xr rdist 1 ,
.Xr rc.conf 5 ,
.Xr ac 8 ,
.Xr chkgrp 8 ,
.Xr dump 8 ,
.Xr mfs 8 .
.Xr periodic 8 .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
file appeared in
.Fx 5.0 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An Brian Somers Aq brian@Awfulhak.org .
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