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From: Henrik Bylund <heb@fubar.campus.luth.se>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: phantom cron jobs?
Date: 05 Aug 1996 09:42:35 +0200
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wjjr@alisa.org (John J. Rushford) writes:
>I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.0 and have a question about some scripts that are
>running:  /etc/daily and /etc/weekly.  
>I can't track down what's running them.  I can't find them in any crontabs.
>Does anyone have any idea on how they are scheduled and is anything else
>running as well?

They are invoked from /etc/crontab.

/Henrik