
How does the sneaky Charlie Root email come out ?
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd is not widely propagated, so you won't
necessarily get much help here (in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd).
See http://www.freebsd.org/support.html for better ideas...
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It's crontab, all right. One of the standard crontab jobs is periodic(8).