Subject: Re: FreeBSD's "periodic" script.
To: Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/06/2000 23:02:38
> Basically you've got a script 'periodic' and a directory tree
> /etc/periodic/{daily|weekly|monthly} which houses scripts named according
> to a standard of {xxx}foo where xxx is an integer that determines the
> order in which scripts get executed.

Personally, I really hate the {xxx}foo style of naming things,
because it makes stuff a pain to enable and disable. I'd prefer to
see a configuration file which says which scripts get run and in
what order.

cjs
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