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-rw-r--r--share/man/man8/afterboot.843
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