Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:11:25 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de> Subject: Re: Handling of daily and weekly mails Message-ID: <200807310911.25960.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <18748908.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <18748908.post@talk.nabble.com>
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On Thursday 31 July 2008 09:03, Maximillian Dornseif wrote: > I administer about a dozen FreeBSD Servers. This results in me getting > about 100 mails a week from the PERIODIC(8) scripts. Obviously this is to > much to read with care. > > I wonder what the canonical approach is to handling hundreds of status > mails like the ons generated by periodic. Depends how much you want to read them. man periodic.conf You can have the results put in a log file rather than emailed to you, if you prefer. You can also control the verbosity of the reports, so if you're very interested in some stats and not at all in others, you can suppress the boring ones. Jonathan
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