[Box Backup] Restoring a corrupted archive?

[James O'Gorman]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 07:57:32AM +0100, Stuart Hickinbottom wrote:
>  Yes - there are usually directories such as the following:
> 
>  /etc/cron.daily
>  /etc/cron.weekly
>  /etc/cron.monthly
> 
>  You can just drop executable scripts or binaries in there and they'll be run 
>  with /approximately/ that frequency (no guarantees). Any output from those 
>  scripts/binaries is emailed to a responsible adult on the system (usually 
>  root).
> 
>  This is the case on at least Red Hat Enterprise and Gentoo - I can't readily 
>  check others.

Marvellous. I'll try and install Fedora and maybe another distro in a VM
over the weekend and adapt my FreeBSD script to the Linux way. I'll
commit it to contrib/ when it's done.

James