On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:08, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:53 +0200, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Is there any way of runnning a script, only once? > > at boot time for example? and all that in an rc friendly > > way, without having to change the /etc/rc* scripts? > > > > thanks in advance > > > > Nikos > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > This quote from 'man 5 crontab' should help. > > Instead of the first five fields, one of eight special strings may > appear: > > string meaning > ------ ------- > @reboot Run once, at startup. > @yearly Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *". > @annually (same as @yearly) > @monthly Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *". > @weekly Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0". > @daily Run once a day, "0 0 * * *". > @midnight (same as @daily) > @hourly Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".
Great, thanks a lot! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
