How would I go about adding scripts to periodic? I particular I have a couple of scripts to fetch virus definitions and scan my system. I gathered the is a 'proper' way to do it by using /usr/local/etc/periodic but not how to do it.
Write the script. Put it in /etc/periodic/{period you want}
Name it xxx.name (as in some number that isn't already used. Scripts are run in numerical order.)
Make it executable for root.
Edit the /etc/periodic.conf file to enable it. See the man page for details, but the syntax is period_scriptname_enable="YES"
For example, write a script name "foo". Make it 250.foo and put it in /etc/periodic/daily. Chown it root:wheel and chmod it 750. Edit /etc/periodic.conf to read daily_foo_enable="YES".
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