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Date:      Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:02:22 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Allen May <umayxa3@donet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How do I get rid of the mail message?
Message-ID:  <20020108230222.J823@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <04f601c19834$d5994e80$0401a8c0@Hewey>; from umayxa3@donet.com on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:08:42AM -0500
References:  <009b01c197fe$7b7ad760$9601a8c0@nrwrkxp01> <04f601c19834$d5994e80$0401a8c0@Hewey>

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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:08:42AM -0500, Allen May wrote:
> When I sign onto my FreeBSD 4.4 machine, it always prompts me that it has new mail.
> I don't care if this machine ever gets mail.. How do I turn this off?

It's the output of the daily/weekly/monthly system check output.

According to the man-page of periodic.conf you can redirect the
output by chnaging the _output fields in /etc/periodic.conf, see
also /etc/defaults/periodic.conf.

Edwin
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