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Random man page:  syncer(1m) -- periodically sync for file system integrity
syncer is a program that periodically executes sync() at an interval determined by the input argument seconds (see sync(2)). If seconds is not specified, the default interval is every 30 seconds. This ensures that the file system is fairly up-to-date in case of a crash. This command should not be executed directly, but should be executed at system boot time via startup script /sbin/init.d/syncer. ...
FreeBSD Tip Of the Day View all tips
In order to make fetch (the FreeBSD downloading tool) ask for
username/password when it encounter a password-protected web page, you can set
the environment variable HTTP_AUTH to 'basic:*'.
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