montly system maintenance jobs should run.  It resides in the
     /etc/defaults directory and parts may be overridden by a file of the same
     name in /etc, which itself may be overridden by the
     /etc/periodic.conf.local file.

     periodic.conf is actually sourced as a shell script from each of the
     periodic scripts and is intended to simply provide default configuration
     variables.

     The following variables are used by periodic(8) itself:

         local_periodic
             (str) List of directories to search for periodic scripts.  This
             list is always prefixed with /etc/periodic, and is only used when
             an argument to periodic(8) is not an absolute directory name.

         dir_output
             (path or list) What to do with the output of the scripts envoked
             from the directory dir.  If this variable is set to an absolute
             path name, output is logged to that file, otherwise it is taken
             as one or more space separated email addresses and mailed to
             those users.  If this variable is not set or is empty, output is
             sent to standard output.

         dir_show_success

         dir_show_info

         dir_show_badconfig
             (bool) These variables control whether periodic(8) will mask the
             output of the envoked scripts based on their return code (where
             dir is the base directory name in which each script resides).  If
             the return code of a script is `0' and dir_show_success is set to
             ``NO'', periodic(8) will mask the script's output.  If the return
             code of a script is `1' and dir_show_info is set to ``NO'',
             periodic(8) will mask the script's output.  If the return code of
             a script is `2' and dir_show_badconfig is set to ``NO'',
             periodic(8) will mask the script's output.  If these variables
             are set to neither ``YES'' nor ``NO'', they default to ``YES'',
             ``YES'' and ``NO'' respectively.

             Refer to the periodic(8) man page for how script return codes are
             interpreted.

     The following variables are used by the standard scripts that reside in
         /etc/periodic/daily:

         daily_clean_logs_enable
             (bool) Set to ``YES'' if you want to clear log directories daily.

         daily_clean_logs_dirs
             (str) Set to the list of directories to clear if
             reported in your daily output.

FILES

         /etc/defaults/periodic.conf  The default configuration file.  This
                                      file contains all default variables and
                                      values.

         /etc/periodic.conf           The usual system specific variable over-
                                      ride file.

         /etc/periodic.conf.local     An additional override file, useful when
                                      /etc/periodic.conf is shared or distrib-
                                      uted.

SEE ALSO

     apropos(1), calendar(1), df(1), gzip(1), locate(1), man(1), msgs(1),
     netstat(1), nice(1), rc.conf(5), ac(8), chkgrp(8), dump(8), periodic(8)

AUTHORS

     Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>.

BSD                              June 22, 2000                             BSD