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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: cron on 2.1
Date: 18 May 1996 15:45:05 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4njsvp$5ne@falstaf.demon.co.uk>,
Robin Birch <robin@falstaf.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I am playing with the cron system and puting things in to do daily cleanups
>and contacts to the internet.  My log is telling me that /etc/daily and
>/etc/weekly are being invoked despite them not being in the crontab for root.
>
>Are these built into cron by default?.  If so how can I modify them?.

They're invoked from /etc/crontab.

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James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
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