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Subject: Re: periodic emails
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On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 6:57:53 am Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 10:36:50AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> J> > why do we send all these empty headings for periodic emails or given there is
> J> > no output to this one can we
> J> > 
> J> > 1) suppress the empty sections (to me that sounds a bit like a wrong
> J> >    return code or something maybe?), and
> J> > 2) add an option to suppress "empty" periodic emails entirely?
> J> 
> J> Have you tried 'daily_show_success="NO"' in /etc/periodic.conf?
> J> 
> J> (Also security_show_success, weekly_show_success, and monthly_show_success?)
> J> 
> J> Those certainly have fixed both 1) and 2) for me.
> 
> Does security_show_success="YES" suppress the security report entirely
> (no mail sent), if no security related issues found?
> 
> When I once tried OpenBSD, I loved that security report mail isn't
> generated at all if not issues found.

Yes.

-- 
John Baldwin