Darren On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:29:30PM -0400, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > >> On 8/25/2013 7:05 AM, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > >>> And the following variables to control whether you want each check to > >>> run "daily", "weekly" or directly from "crontab" (the default, backward > >>> compatible values are shown): > >> > >> What do we do if we want to run a check both daily and weekly? > > > > I really don't see the point of running some checks weekly when you do > > daily. Do you have a particular example in mind? > > On one set of systems, I have a log analyser run as a periodic script. > On a daily run, it grabs and filters logs into a database. On weekly > runs, it does some statistical analysis of the filtered logs in the > database. On monthly runs, it does a larger set of stats and a bit of > housekeeping. The script lives in /usr/local/libexec and is hardlinked > into the /usr/local/etc/periodic/ subtree and cases out the value of $0. > > The new framework would let me rely on the environment instead of $0, > which, IMO, is more reliable. I'd need to be able to tell periodic to > run that script with the daily, weekly and monthly security runs, though.
If I understand what you say correctly, this should continue to work. -- Jeremie Le Hen Scientists say the world is made up of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons. They forgot to mention Morons. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
