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Old 12th September 2010
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Default default crontab

Maybe I am missing something. Openbsd's default crontab is supposed to be in /etc according to docs. There is no crontab in /etc by default. There is a copy of the standard system crontab file in /usr/etc.

I can install that one however, cron seems to be executing newsyslog periodically (despite the fact that I see no crontabs for root).

Should the default crontab be installed in /etc ?
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What "docs" tell you the crontab should be in /etc?

The definitive documentation, crontab(1), describes the file structure in /var/cron.
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Old 13th September 2010
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I'm sorry. I mean cron. /etc/crontab is the system crontab file. There is a copy if it
in /usr/etc which seems to be correct.

My question is should this be installed as a root cron process or does the system have other scripts that handle housekeeping for the system..ie like log rotation (newsyslog), etc.?
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...or does the system have other scripts that handle housekeeping for the system..ie like log rotation (newsyslog), etc.?
Take a look at root's settings at /var/cron/tabs/root.
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There is a copy if it in /usr/etc which seems to be correct.
That's not a directory structure OpenBSD users ever expect to see. Please do me a favor and post the output of "sysctl kern.version" here.
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Old 13th September 2010
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I agree with jggimi. Everything mentioned matches FreeBSD, not OpenBSD:

http://tim.oreilly.com/pub/a/bsd/200...SD_Basics.html
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That's not a directory structure OpenBSD users ever expect to see. Please do me a favor and post the output of "sysctl kern.version" here.
kern.version=OpenBSD 4.7-stable (GENERIC.MP) #3: Sat Aug 21 17:17:28 EDT 2010
troot@corky31.fbroce.local:/usr/src/...ile/GENERIC.MP
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Default re root file

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Take a look at root's settings at /var/cron/tabs/root.
I have added the default crontab to root. It was empty before that.
The implication is that this runs by default however by default root shows no crontab files. I installed this as the root crontab file however, I am wondering if it runs silently in the background?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.SYHFZW1Oui installed on Sun Sep 12 10:48:37 2010)
# (Cron version V5.0)
# $OpenBSD: crontab,v 1.18 2009/05/09 17:15:49 schwarze Exp $
#
# /var/cron/tabs/root - root's crontab
#
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
HOME=/var/log
#
#minute hour mday month wday command
#
# sendmail clientmqueue runner
#*/30 * * * * /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q
#
# rotate log files every hour, if necessary
0 * * * * /usr/bin/newsyslog
# send log file notifications, if necessary
#1-59 * * * * /usr/bin/newsyslog -m
#
# do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance
30 1 * * * /bin/sh /etc/daily
30 3 * * 6 /bin/sh /etc/weekly
30 5 1 * * /bin/sh /etc/monthly
#0 * * * * /usr/libexec/spamd-setup
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1. You have told us this system has a "/usr/etc" structure. OpenBSD doesn't. So this must have been added by you or another admin.

2. If I understood what you have posted here -- and I may not -- there was no root crontab, but one is included in the standard installation of OpenBSD. It must have been deleted by you or another admin.

It is only a guess, of course, but if both of these things are true, the questions you raise indicate a system which has has been customized or reconfigured. If not by you, then by a predecessor. If the latter, you should consider the value of a re-installation, in order to eliminate any unknowns, and any non-standard structures and software.

What is the history of this system?
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Thanks for setting me straight!

There is no other user or admin of this system. I think I know what happened. I must have updated the source with cvs and specified the wrong path and created the /usr/etc/ instead of /usr/src/etc.

I have another identical server and it does not have the /usr/etc directory.
Sorry for all the confusion.

I still don't think either of the systems enabled the default crontab file in /etc as a root crontab. Should that be part of the standard setup?
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Should that be part of the standard setup?
Yes, it is included in the default installation.
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To highlight what ocicat has stated -- if you look at the etc47.tgz fileset used during installation, you will see version 1.18 of root's crontab file in that tarball, in var/cron/tabs/root.

You might have done some damage to your system, if the file was not there.
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This looks to be quite the mess, I'd urge you to reinstall cleanly.. most definitely a support nightmare.
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Default re 4.7

I did an upgrade from 4.6. It's possible that I mishandled mergemaster. Looks like it was my error in any case.

The system really is behaving well. I just noticed that some of the logs were growing more than I thought they should and realized that the root crontab was not installed.

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