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.Dd July 25, 2003
.Dt DAILY 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm daily , weekly , monthly
.Nd periodic system maintenance
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm /etc/daily
.Nm /etc/weekly
.Nm /etc/monthly
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The three files
.Pa /etc/daily ,
.Pa /etc/weekly ,
and
.Pa /etc/monthly
are shell scripts run on a periodic basis by the clock daemon,
.Xr cron 8 .
They take care of some basic administrative tasks.
The results are mailed to root.
.Pp
.Sy Note :
The scripts are all run as part of root's
.Xr crontab 5 .
However, it is strongly suggested that the root mail account
be an alias that forwards messages to a real user or set of users.
Otherwise, root's mail will simply accumulate in
.Pa /var/mail
until the partition holding it runs out of space.
See
.Xr newaliases 8
for further details.
.Pp
These scripts should not be altered.
Local additions should be made to the files
.Pa /etc/daily.local ,
.Pa /etc/weekly.local ,
and
.Pa /etc/monthly.local ,
which will be executed by
.Pa /etc/daily ,
.Pa /etc/weekly ,
and
.Pa /etc/monthly ,
respectively.
The
.Pa *.local
files are executed first, which makes it convenient to do any necessary
cleanup and backup before the script is run.
.Ss /etc/daily
This script is run daily.
It currently does the following:
.Bl -dash
.It
Runs the script
.Pa /etc/daily.local ,
if it exists.
.It
Removes scratch and junk files from
.Pa /tmp
and
.Pa /var/tmp .
.It
Removes stale files from the
.Xr rwhod 8
database.
.It
Checks for core dumps.
.It
Removes system messages older than 21 days for the
.Xr msgs 1
utility.
.It
Purges accounting records from
.Pa /var/account ,
if they exist.
See
.Xr accton 8
and
.Xr sa 8 .
.It
Creates a backup root file system which is updated daily.
This only happens if the following conditions are met:
.Bl -enum -offset indent
.It
The environment variable
.Ev ROOTBACKUP
must be set.
For example, the following can be added to root's
.Xr crontab 5 :
.Pp
.Dl ROOTBACKUP=1
.It
The mount directory
.Pa /altroot
must exist, and there must be an
.Pa /etc/fstab
entry specifying
.Sq xx
for the mount options, e.g.
.Pp
.Dl /dev/wd0j /altroot ffs xx 0 0
.El
.It
Checks disk status.
Reports on the amount of disk used/available via
.Xr df 1 .
Reports on which file systems need to be dumped via
.Xr dump 8 .
.It
Reports on the status of the mail queue via
.Xr mailq 8 .
.It
Reports networking statistics via
.Xr netstat 1 .
.It
Gives an uptime for every machine which exists in
.Pa /var/rwho ,
via the
.Xr ruptime 1
utility.
.It
Runs the
.Xr calendar 1
utility unless the environment variable
.Ev CALENDAR
is set to 0 in root's
.Xr crontab 5
or the host is a
.Xr yp 8
client.
.It
If
.Ev CHECKFILESYSTEMS
is set to 1 in root's crontab,
runs
.Xr fsck 8
with the no-write flag
.Pq Fl n .
.It
If the file
.Pa /etc/Distfile
exists, runs the
.Xr rdist 1
utility.
.It
Runs the system security check script,
.Pa /etc/security .
See
.Xr security 8
for further details.
.El
.Ss /etc/weekly
This script is run weekly.
It currently does the following:
.Bl -dash
.It
Runs the script
.Pa /etc/weekly.local ,
if it exists.
.It
Rebuilds the
.Xr locate 1
database, if there is an existing
.Pa /var/db/locate.database
file.
.It
Rebuilds the
.Xr whatis 1
database(s) via
.Xr makewhatis 8 .
.El
.Ss /etc/monthly
This script is run monthly.
It currently does the following:
.Bl -dash
.It
Runs the script
.Pa /etc/monthly.local ,
if it exists.
.El
.Sh ENVIRONMENT
.Bl -tag -width "CHECKFILESYSTEMS" -compact
.It Ev CALENDAR
Determines whether to run
.Xr calendar 1 .
.It Ev CHECKFILESYSTEMS
Determines whether to run
.Xr fsck 8
with the no-write flag.
.It Ev ROOTBACKUP
Determines whether to make a backup of the root file system.
.El
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "/var/cron/tabs/root" -compact
.It Pa /etc/daily
Daily maintenance script.
.It Pa /etc/daily.local
Site specific daily maintenance script.
.It Pa /etc/weekly
Weekly maintenance script.
.It Pa /etc/weekly.local
Site specific weekly maintenance script.
.It Pa /etc/monthly
Monthly maintenance script.
.It Pa /etc/monthly.local
Site specific monthly maintenance script.
.It Pa /var/cron/tabs/root
Root
.Xr crontab 5 .
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr calendar 1 ,
.Xr crontab 1 ,
.Xr df 1 ,
.Xr locate 1 ,
.Xr msgs 1 ,
.Xr netstat 1 ,
.Xr rdist 1 ,
.Xr ruptime 1 ,
.Xr rwho 1 ,
.Xr whatis 1 ,
.Xr crontab 5 ,
.Xr accton 8 ,
.Xr cron 8 ,
.Xr dump 8 ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr mailq 8 ,
.Xr makewhatis 8 ,
.Xr sa 8 ,
.Xr security 8 ,
.Xr yp 8
.Sh HISTORY
This manual page first appeared in
.Ox 3.4 .
.Sh CAVEATS
If the host machine is not running 24/7, these scripts may never be run.
Adjusting the time fields in the system
.Xr crontab 5
may partially alleviate this problem.
.Pp
Be careful when adding local additions.
Services such as
.Qq www
have their own users, and should be run as such, not as root.
It may be more appropriate to create a separate
.Xr crontab 5
for such services.