Since etc/daily rev. 1.58, there is no more output redirection in crontab(5).

Consequently, clean up the related instructions, this is now simpler.
While here, make the discussion of daily(8) more concise.
Thanks to Rene Maroufi <info at maroufi dot net> for reporting
the outdated documentation.
Wording tweaked by jmc@,  OK jmc@ sobrado@

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/share/man/man8/afterboot.8 b/share/man/man8/afterboot.8
index 228c8af1107..cd6c553ec90 100644
--- a/share/man/man8/afterboot.8
+++ b/share/man/man8/afterboot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.124 2009/05/09 16:29:55 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.125 2009/10/22 12:44:36 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1997 Marshall M. Midden
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
 .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 9 2009 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: October 22 2009 $
 .Dt AFTERBOOT 8
 \!\" Originally created by Marshall M. Midden -- 1997-10-20, m4@umn.edu
 .Os
@@ -484,26 +484,18 @@ See
 .Pa /usr/share/sendmail/README
 for more information.
 .Ss Daily, weekly, monthly scripts
-Look at and possibly edit the
-.Pa /etc/daily , /etc/weekly ,
-and
-.Pa /etc/monthly
-scripts.
-Your site specific things should go into
+Review
+.Xr daily 8
+to understand what the periodic system maintenance scripts do and
+how to customize them:
+For example, to enable
+.Ev ROOTBACKUP
+or to disable
+.Ev VERBOSESTATUS ,
+or to add local maintenance code to
 .Pa /etc/daily.local , /etc/weekly.local ,
-and
+or
 .Pa /etc/monthly.local .
-.Pp
-These scripts have been limited so as to keep the system running without
-filling up disk space from normal running processes and database updates.
-(You probably do not need to understand them.)
-.Pp
-The
-.Pa /etc/daily
-script provides a means to perform a daily backup of the root filesystem.
-See
-.Xr daily 8
-for more information.
 .Ss Tighten up security
 You might wish to tighten up security more by editing
 .Pa /etc/fbtab
@@ -532,17 +524,6 @@ as root
 and see if anything unexpected is present.
 Do you need anything else?
 Do you wish to change things?
-For example, if you do not
-like root getting standard output of the daily scripts, and want only
-the security scripts that are mailed internally, you can type
-.Ic crontab -e
-and change some of the lines to read:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-30  1  *  *  *   /bin/sh /etc/daily 2>&1 > /var/log/daily.out
-30  3  *  *  6   /bin/sh /etc/weekly 2>&1 > /var/log/weekly.out
-30  5  1  *  *   /bin/sh /etc/monthly 2>&1 > /var/log/monthly.out
-.Ed
-.Pp
 See
 .Xr crontab 5 .
 .Ss Next day cleanup