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periodic.conf
—
periodic job configuration information
The file periodic.conf
contains a
description of how daily, weekly and monthly system maintenance jobs should
run. It resides in the /etc/defaults directory and
parts may be overridden by a file of the same name in
/etc, which itself may be overridden by the
/etc/periodic.conf.local file.
The periodic.conf
file is actually sourced
as a shell script from each of the periodic scripts and is intended to
simply provide default configuration variables.
The following variables are used by periodic(8) itself:
For an unattended machine, suitable values for
daily_output, weekly_output,
and monthly_output might be
“/var/log/daily.log
”,
“/var/log/weekly.log
”, and
“/var/log/monthly.log
”
respectively, as newsyslog(8)
will rotate these files (if they exists) at the appropriate times.
NO
”,
periodic(8) will mask the script's
output. If the return code of a script is ‘1’ and
⟨dir⟩_show_info
is set to “NO
”,
periodic(8) will mask the script's
output. If the return code of a script is ‘2’ and
⟨dir⟩_show_badconfig
is set to “NO
”,
periodic(8) will mask the script's
output. If these variables are set to neither
“YES
” nor
“NO
”, they default to
“YES
”,
“YES
” and
“NO
” respectively.
Refer to the periodic(8) manual page for how script return codes are interpreted.
The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in /etc/periodic/daily:
YES
” if you want to clear temporary
directories daily.YES
”.YES
”. Wild card characters are
permitted.YES
” if you want the removed files
to be reported in your daily output.The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in /etc/periodic/weekly:
The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in /etc/periodic/monthly:
The periodic.conf
file appeared in
FreeBSD 4.1.
Brian Somers ⟨brian@Awfulhak.org⟩
May 12, 2007 | macOS 14.6 |