MONTHLY(5)

📦 version 11.0, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 MONTHLY — the monthly maintenance manual, bestie

okay so real talk: this page is monthly and monthly.conf, and it's all about monthly maintenance. yes, that's the whole vibe. let's get into it 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So the /etc/monthly script is normally run in the morning of the 1st of every month, on a NetBSD system. Like, first of the month, morning time, that's its whole moment ☀️

⚠️ But bestie, listen — this is disabled in the default root's crontab(5) file. Not deleted, not gone, just commented out 🙈 so it will not run unless you go un-comment it yourself. no cap.

And then there's /etc/monthly.conf, which is the file that specifies which of the standard monthly services are performed. so it's the lil' guest list for the month's tasks 🫶

And, um… the plot twist:

There are currently no monthly tasks. 💀

That's it. That's the list. The guest list is empty. The party is cancelled. monthly is literally that one group chat that hasn't had a message since 2011 🦋

🌸 FILES 🌸

  • /etc/monthly — the monthly maintenance script itself, the main character 👑
  • /etc/monthly.conf — the monthly maintenance configuration, aka where you tell it what's up
  • /etc/monthly.local — local site additions to /etc/monthly, for your own custom lil' extras ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

(the whole scheduling fam — go say hi 🌈)

💜 HISTORY 💜

The /etc/monthly.conf file appeared in NetBSD 1.3. iconic behavior, honestly 🎀

k so that's the whole page, and for the cute sign-off: this one comes from Debian, dated May 3, 2011 — yeah, she's been around a minute 💅 mwah, go read daily(5) next bestie 💖

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