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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: Allen May <umayxa3@donet.com>
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Subject: Re: How do I get rid of the mail message?
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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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