YASSP

Daily cronjob


The PARCdaily package implement a set of actions we want to execute once a day. It include some logs rotation, backup and checking of a list of sensible files, and various other checks.

PARCdaily can be installed as a standalone pkg, but will use /etc/yassp.conf if it is present.. It's avalaible from: parcdaily.Z and is architecture independent as being writen in bourne shell.
To install it, uncompress it and do pkgadd -d parcdaily PARCdaily

PARCdaily first comments out all the lines of /usr/lib/newsyslog, as it will implement a its own logs managements. Then, it adds a daily cron job : /opt/local/sbin/daily.

/opt/local/etc/daily will, once a day, execute the following action:

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