Did you know that you can easily add new time intervals into the system’s periodic feature?
Let’s add /etc/periodic/hourly as the example:
#> mkdir /etc/periodic/hourly #> # creating the crontab entry to run scripts at 25 minutes every hour #> echo "25 * * * * root periodic hourly" >> /etc/crontab
into /etc/periodic.conf:
hourly_output="root" # user or /file weekly_show_success="NO" # scripts returning 0 weekly_show_info="YES" # scripts returning 1 weekly_show_badconfig="NO" # scripts returning 2
That’s all. We are done! Now you can place executable scripts into /etc/periodic/hourly and they will run every hour under root account.
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