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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE .\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL .\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS .\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) .\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT .\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD: src/share/man/man5/periodic.conf.5,v 1.65 2007/05/13 09:33:35 maxim Exp $ .\" .Dd May 12, 2007 .Dt PERIODIC.CONF 5 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm periodic.conf .Nd periodic job configuration information .Sh DESCRIPTION The file .Nm contains a description of how daily, weekly and monthly system maintenance jobs should run. It resides in the .Pa /etc/defaults directory and parts may be overridden by a file of the same name in .Pa /etc , which itself may be overridden by the .Pa /etc/periodic.conf.local file. .Pp The .Nm file is actually sourced as a shell script from each of the periodic scripts and is intended to simply provide default configuration variables. .Pp The following variables are used by .Xr periodic 8 itself: .Bl -tag -offset 4n -width 2n .It Va local_periodic .Pq Vt str List of directories to search for periodic scripts. This list is always prefixed with .Pa /etc/periodic , and is only used when an argument to .Xr periodic 8 is not an absolute directory name. .It Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _output .Pq Vt path No or Vt list What to do with the output of the scripts executed from the directory .Ar dir . If this variable is set to an absolute path name, output is logged to that file, otherwise it is taken as one or more space separated email addresses and mailed to those users. If this variable is not set or is empty, output is sent to standard output. .Pp For an unattended machine, suitable values for .Va daily_output , .Va weekly_output , and .Va monthly_output might be .Dq Li /var/log/daily.log , .Dq Li /var/log/weekly.log , and .Dq Li /var/log/monthly.log respectively, as .Xr newsyslog 8 will rotate these files (if they exists) at the appropriate times. .It Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_success .It Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_info .It Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_badconfig .Pq Vt bool These variables control whether .Xr periodic 8 will mask the output of the executed scripts based on their return code (where .Ar dir is the base directory name in which each script resides). If the return code of a script is .Sq 0 and .Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_success is set to .Dq Li NO , .Xr periodic 8 will mask the script's output. If the return code of a script is .Sq 1 and .Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_info is set to .Dq Li NO , .Xr periodic 8 will mask the script's output. If the return code of a script is .Sq 2 and .Ao Ar dir Ac Ns Va _show_badconfig is set to .Dq Li NO , .Xr periodic 8 will mask the script's output. If these variables are set to neither .Dq Li YES nor .Dq Li NO , they default to .Dq Li YES , .Dq Li YES and .Dq Li NO respectively. .Pp Refer to the .Xr periodic 8 manual page for how script return codes are interpreted. .El .Pp The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in .Pa /etc/periodic/daily : .Bl -tag -offset 4n -width 2n .It Va daily_clean_tmps_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to clear temporary directories daily. .It Va daily_clean_tmps_dirs .Pq Vt str Set to the list of directories to clear if .Va daily_clean_tmps_enable is set to .Dq Li YES . .It Va daily_clean_tmps_days .Pq Vt num When .Va daily_clean_tmps_enable is set, this must also be set to the number of days old that a file's access and modification times must be before it is deleted. .It Va daily_clean_tmps_ignore .Pq Vt str Set to the list of files that should not be deleted when .Va daily_clean_tmps_enable is set to .Dq Li YES . Wild card characters are permitted. .It Va daily_clean_tmps_verbose .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output. .It Va daily_clean_msgs_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you wish old system messages to be purged. .It Va daily_clean_msgs_days .Pq Vt num Set to the number of days that files must not have been modified before they are deleted. If this variable is left blank, the .Xr msgs 1 default is used. .It Va daily_clean_rwho_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you wish old files in .Pa /var/who to be purged. .It Va daily_clean_rwho_days .Pq Vt num Set to the number of days that files must not have been modified before they are deleted. .It Va daily_clean_rwho_verbose .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want the removed files to be reported in your daily output. .It Va daily_accounting_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to rotate your daily accounting files. No rotations are necessary unless .Va accounting_enable is enabled in .Xr rc.conf 5 . .It Va daily_accounting_compress .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want your daily accounting files to be compressed using .Xr gzip 1 . .It Va daily_accounting_save .Pq Vt num When .Va daily_accounting_enable is set, this may also be set to the number of daily accounting files that are to be saved. The default is .Dq Li 3 . .It Va daily_accounting_flags .Pq Vt str Set to the arguments to pass to the .Xr sa 8 utility (in addition to .Fl s ) when .Va daily_accounting_enable is set to .Dq Li YES . The default is .Fl q . .It Va daily_status_disks_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to run .Xr df 1 (with the arguments supplied in .Va daily_status_disks_df_flags ) . .It Va daily_status_disks_df_flags .Pq Vt str Set to the arguments for the .Xr df 1 utility when .Va daily_status_disks_enable is set to .Dq Li YES . .It Va daily_status_network_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to run .Nm netstat Fl i . .It Va daily_status_network_usedns .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to run .Xr netstat 1 without the .Fl n option (to do DNS lookups). .It Va daily_status_rwho_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to run .Xr uptime 1 (or .Xr ruptime 1 if .Va rwhod_enable is set to .Dq Li YES in .Pa /etc/rc.conf ) . .It Va daily_status_mailq_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to run .Xr mailq 1 . .It Va daily_status_mailq_shorten .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to shorten the .Xr mailq 1 output when .Va daily_status_mailq_enable is set to .Dq Li YES . .It Va daily_status_include_submit_mailq .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you also want to run .Xr mailq 1 on the submit mail queue when .Va daily_status_mailq_enable is set to .Dq Li YES . This may not work with MTAs other than .Xr sendmail 8 . .It Va daily_local .Pq Vt str Set to a list of extra scripts that should be run after all other daily scripts. All scripts must be absolute path names. .El .Pp The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in .Pa /etc/periodic/weekly : .Bl -tag -offset 4n -width 2n .It Va weekly_whatis_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to run .Pa /usr/libexec/makewhatis.local . This script regenerates the database used by the .Xr apropos 1 command. .It Va weekly_local .Pq Vt str Set to a list of extra scripts that should be run after all other weekly scripts. All scripts must be absolute path names. .El .Pp The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in .Pa /etc/periodic/monthly : .Bl -tag -offset 4n -width 2n .It Va monthly_accounting_enable .Pq Vt bool Set to .Dq Li YES if you want to do login accounting using the .Xr ac 8 command. .It Va monthly_local .Pq Vt str Set to a list of extra scripts that should be run after all other monthly scripts. All scripts must be absolute path names. .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/defaults/periodic.conf" .It Pa /etc/defaults/periodic.conf The default configuration file. This file contains all default variables and values. .It Pa /etc/periodic.conf The usual system specific variable override file. .It Pa /etc/periodic.conf.local An additional override file, useful when .Pa /etc/periodic.conf is shared or distributed. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr apropos 1 , .Xr calendar 1 , .Xr df 1 , .Xr diff 1 , .Xr gzip 1 , .Xr man 1 , .Xr msgs 1 , .Xr netstat 1 , .Xr nice 1 , .Xr ac 8 , .Xr newsyslog 8 , .Xr periodic 8 , .Xr sendmail 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm file appeared in .Fx 4.1 . .Sh AUTHORS .An Brian Somers Aq brian@Awfulhak.org