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From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <haimat@lame.at>
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On 2004-09-22 12:46, "Matthias F. Brandstetter" <haimat@lame.at> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as like every other FreeBSD machine, my FreeBSD based server sends me an
> daily (security) output every night. I know where to change some settings
> like where the email should go to etc. But is there any chance to change
> subject line of this auto generated email?

It's hardwired in /usr/sbin/periodic (which is a shell script, so it's
not really impossible to change it).