Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 13:23:23 -0700 From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@ThirdAge.com> To: Dara Ghahremani <dara@salk.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daily and security output email msgs. Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980608132323.00cdf120@204.74.82.151> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980608112641.12127F-100000@sherrington.salk. edu>
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You're not clear in what you want - if you want to disable the functionality (not recommended), delete the lines in the crontab file. If you just don't want to hear about it, redirect output to /dev/null: ...blah blah... >> /dev/null 2>&1 This isn't recommended either... you (or someone else) should know what's going on on your server. -j At 11:43 AM 6/8/98 -0700, you wrote: > >Hi, > >I would like to have FreeBSD stop sending daily run output and security >check output messages to root. I'm using release 2.2.6 on a PII-300MHz. >I've commented out the pipe to sendmail in /etc/crontab under "do >daily/weekly/monthly maintenance", but I still receive the messages. I >can't find any other relevant mail commands in /etc files. What else can I >do to stop the messages from being sent? > >Thanks, >Dara Ghahremani >Computational Neurobiology Laboratory >The Salk Institute for Biological Studies > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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