Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 17:05:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Hockenhull <benh@jpj.net> To: Dara Ghahremani <dara@salk.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daily and security output email msgs. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.980608170123.3147C-100000@blues.jpj.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980608112641.12127F-100000@sherrington.salk.edu>
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Dara, By default, cron mails the output of any job to the owner of that job, in this case, root. This is distinct from any sort of call to mail in a cron-run script. About the only way to shut up cron is to redirect STDOUT and STDERR to /dev/null. However, you probably want to see the output of the daily/weekly/monthly scripts as they can alert you to system anamolies. If you'd rather they went to a regular user account rather than the root account, simply add an alias for root to a regular user (you?) in /etc/aliases and then run newaliases. -- Ben Hockenhull benh@jpj.net On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Dara Ghahremani 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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