> Dear Thomas and FreeBSD friends, > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:52:11PM +0100, Thomas Krause wrote: >> Dear list, >> >> after upgrading from 6.2R to 6.3R my daily jobs, which are normaly >> executed from /etc/daily.local, are not longer started. >> The entry in daily.local is >> $HOME/bin/save-conf.sh >> 6.2R executed /root/bin/save-conf.sh >> 6.3R (and 7.0R) tries to start /var/log/bin/save-conf.bin >> >> Why? I cannot find such a homedir in /etc/passwd! >> >> Regards, >> Thomas. > > > I'm sorry, I do not know why $HOME is resolved to /var/log/. > > Is /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/ not the place to put your daily > executable scripts? What is daily.local about? I have searched the net > myself and seems that daily.local is something out of an old box. It > should be superseded by /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/ > Do you have a script like /usr/local/etc/periodic/daily/999.local Or is > there another place where the script daily.local will be launched. I > assume that daily.local is a script? Maybe there $HOME is set?
my consideration was: gromit:/ # grep daily.local /etc/defaults/periodic.conf daily_local="/etc/daily.local" # Local scripts gromit:/ # uname -r 7.0-RELEASE I' checked an older 5.5R an found in /etc/crontab an entry HOME=/var/log - but in this release it has no effect ?! Best regards, Thomas. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
