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# 259065 07-Dec-2013 gjb

- Copy stable/10 (r259064) to releng/10.0 as part of the
10.0-RELEASE cycle.
- Update __FreeBSD_version [1]
- Set branch name to -RC1

[1] 10.0-CURRENT __FreeBSD_version value ended at '55', so
start releng/10.0 at '100' so the branch is started with
a value ending in zero.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation

# 256281 10-Oct-2013 gjb

Copy head (r256279) to stable/10 as part of the 10.0-RELEASE cycle.

Approved by: re (implicit)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation


# 194170 14-Jun-2009 brian

Remove HOME= - this has surprised me several times in the past.

PR: 132135
Submitted by: Craig Leres
MFC after: 3 weeks


# 107171 22-Nov-2002 tom

Clarify adjkerntz(8) note and use complete sentences in comments.

PR: misc/45493
Approved by: re (rwatson)


# 72677 19-Feb-2001 peter

Move the sendmail -q from cron to periodic, as suggested by a few people.
This has the benefit of adding a random start time element as daily
processing takes a different amount of time on different machines.


# 72506 14-Feb-2001 peter

Manually run /usr/sbin/sendmail -q once a day. Folks seem to be too
trigger happy and turn off sendmail_enable entirely (instead of setting
sendmail_flags to -q30m instead). I have seen boxes with things like daily
run reports that have sat in mailq for 5 months. Since /usr/sbin/sendmail
is actually mailwrapper, this should be safe for the other plugins that
provide the sendmail calling interface.


# 71014 14-Jan-2001 dougb

Move the process of storing entropy from /dev/random and reseeding with
it at boot time closer to the way we want it to be in the final version.

* Move the default directory to /var/db/entropy
* Run the entropy saving cron job every 11 minutes. This seems
to be a better default, although still bikeshed material.
* Feed /dev/random some cheesy "entropy" from various commands
and files before the disks are mounted. This gives /dev/random
a better chance of running without blocking early.
* Move the reseeding with previously stored entropy to the point
immediately after the disks are mounted.
* Make the harvesting script a little safer in regards to the
possibility of accidentally overwriting something other
than a regular file.


# 70922 11-Jan-2001 dougb

Add a system to save entropy from /dev/random periodically so that
it can be used to reseed at boot time. This will greatly increase
the chances that there will be sufficient entropy available at
boot time to prevent long delays.

For /etc/rc, remove the vmstat and iostat runs from the attempt
to provide some cheesy randomness if the files fail, since
those programs are dynamically linked, and ldd seems to want
some randomness to do its magic.

Guidance and parameters for this project were provided by
Mark Murray, based on the requirements of the Yarrow
algorithm. Some helpful suggestions for implementation
(including the tip about iostat and vmstat) were provided
by Sheldon Hearn. All blame for problems or mistakes is
mine of course.


# 69865 11-Dec-2000 obrien

Revert back to rev 1.24 as we have not come to a consensus if is is OK
for a hung `daily' run to keep a `weekly' run from happening.
Same for `monthly'. We have always run `weekly' and `monthly' reguardless
of the execution status of `daily'. Until there is some consensus we should
not change the behavior.


# 69863 11-Dec-2000 des

Run all three maintenance script in succession, making sure they always
run on the right day but never overlap.

Submitted by: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>


# 69819 10-Dec-2000 des

On Sundays through Fridays, run daily at 03:01 am.
On Saturdays, run daily and weekly sequentially, starting at 03:01 am.

This prevents daily and weekly from overlapping, while running weekly as
early as possible (i.e. as soon as daily finishes) to give it time to
finish before monthly starts at 05:30 am.

It's probably possible to do something similar with monthly, making it
run as soon as daily (and possibly weekly, if the first of the month
is a Saturday) finishes, but this is left as an exercise for the reader.


# 69753 08-Dec-2000 obrien

Run weekly a little bit later to give more time for daily to complete
(since it starts later now).


# 68911 19-Nov-2000 dougb

When to run the periodic/daily event has had several rounds of discussion
over the past couple years. The most recent came to the general consensus
that this was the best time, but no one actually made the change, so I'll
don my asbestos undies and dive in.

Please note that this time was chosen with input from people in various
countries with various methods and schedules for switching to and from DST.
There is no perfect time to schedule this job that works for everyone, but
this time both A) Works for more people, and B) Causes problems for fewer
people. And, ultimately, you can always change it if you need to.


# 65843 14-Sep-2000 brian

Another overhaul of the periodic stuff.

All periodic sub-scripts <larf> now have their return codes interpreted
by periodic(8). Output may be masked based on variable values in
periodic.conf.

It's also now possible to email periodic output to arbitrary addresses,
or to send it to a log file, examples of which can be found in
newsyslog.conf.

The upshot of it all should be no discernable changes to the default
behaviour of periodic(8).

PR: 21250


# 54645 15-Dec-1999 obrien

This was a mixed bag of spaces and ^I's.


# 50472 27-Aug-1999 peter

$Id$ -> $FreeBSD$


# 49578 09-Aug-1999 phk

Move cronjob up one minute to get it out of the 02:00-03:00 happy hour
of daylight savings changes.

Submitted by: Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
Reviewed by: phk


# 34959 30-Mar-1998 ache

Run adjkerntz -a at 05:01 too


# 28144 13-Aug-1997 pst

Make the cutover to periodic and cron.d as discussed to death on committers
for the past week.


# 23037 23-Feb-1997 peter

Revert $FreeBSD$ to $Id$


# 21673 14-Jan-1997 jkh

Make the long-awaited change from $Id$ to $FreeBSD$

This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.

Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.


# 21360 06-Jan-1997 nate

Remove un-necessary comment.


# 13287 06-Jan-1996 ache

Remove "msgs -c" line, already done in daily script


# 13249 05-Jan-1996 graichen

changed /etc/[daily,weekly,monthly] to not rotate the logfiles by
"hand", changed /etc/crontab to call /usr/sbin/newsyslog every hour
(the entry was there before - but we haven't had any newsyslog until
today :-) and changed /etc/inetd.conf to also contain (commentet out)
entries for rpc.rquotad and rpc.sprayd (taken from NetBSD)


# 12392 19-Nov-1995 ache

Add commented out msgs database cleanup to crontab
Add -f (silent) flag to msgs call for logins (commented out)


# 8785 26-May-1995 ache

Eliminate two Subject: from *ly output, call sendmail root directly


# 4092 02-Nov-1994 ache

Call adjkerntz -a every half hour from 0 to 4 am


# 4050 01-Nov-1994 ache

Remove adjkerntz call


# 3121 26-Sep-1994 ache

Start adjkerntz at 3:01 instead of 3:00, it is too early for TZ change at 3:00


# 1363 15-Apr-1994 sean

As a result of the distribution crontab, /usr/libexec/atrun was being run
only once an hour instead of every five minutes. This was due to a minute
specification of 0/5 -- which should have been */5. This has been fixed.
Expect your /var/cron/log to grow much faster now.


# 1001 22-Jan-1994 guido

This is Vixie cron 3.0. This version fixes all known security bugs.
Further it implements crontab -e.
I moved cron from /usr/libexec to /usr/sbin where most daemons are
that are run from rc. That also gets rid of the ugly path crond
used to have in ps(1) outputs. Further I renamed it to cron, as
Paul Vixie likes it and is done by NetBSD.

NOTE VERY WELL THE FOLLOWING:

1) Systems crontab changed. Every users crontab resides in /var/cron
*EXCEPT* root's. This is a special crontab as it resides in
/etc. Further it is the *ONLY* crontab file in which you specify
usernames. See /usr/src/etc/crontab. This is also done by BSDI's
BSD/386 as far as I know (they provided the patches for it anyway)
2) So you *must* delete root's crontab and reinstall the copy
in /etc from /usr/src/etc.
'Must' is to much: the old installed crontab will work but cron
will also try to 'run' /etc/crontab.
3) Last but not least: cron's logging is now done via syslog. Note
that logging by cron is done lowercase when it logs about itsself
and uppercase when it logs user events, like installing a new crontab.
The default logfile file is the same as before:
syslog.conf:cron.* /var/cron/log

-Guido


# 955 08-Jan-1994 ache

atrun uncommented.
atrun interval changed to 5 minutes.


# 931 04-Jan-1994 ache

Add adjkerntz to track time zone change.


# 151 19-Jul-1993 rgrimes

Cleaned up crontab from NetBSD, adjusted for FreeBSD.


# 38 20-Jun-1993 rgrimes

This commit was generated by cvs2svn to compensate for changes in r37,
which included commits to RCS files with non-trunk default branches.


# 37 20-Jun-1993 rgrimes

Initial import of 386BSD 0.1 othersrc/etc