From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 14:52:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DBEC16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:52:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1F443FCB for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:52:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (udsl-3-062.QLD.dft.com.au [202.168.108.62])hAHMqWZ6015594; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:52:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.1])hAHMqVUR039304; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:52:31 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:52:31 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: Damian Gerow In-Reply-To: <20031117205537.GJ98840@sentex.net> Message-ID: <20031118084808.E30811@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20031117203641.GG98840@sentex.net> <20031117205537.GJ98840@sentex.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daily/weekly/monthly output aggregation X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:52:35 -0000 Damian Gerow wrote: > b) This is a pretty big problem that nothing has addressed yet. periodic(8) can be told to send its output to a file. 'man periodic.conf' says: dir_output (path or list) What to do with the output of the scripts envoked from the directory dir. If this variable is set to an absolute path name, output is logged to that file, otherwise it is taken as one or more space separated email addresses and mailed to those users. If this variable is not set or is empty, output is sent to standard output. For an unattended machine, suitable values for daily_output, weekly_output, and monthly_output might be ``/var/log/daily.log'', ``/var/log/weekly.log'', and ``/var/log/monthly.log'' respectively, as newsyslog(8) will rotate these files (if they exists) at the appropriate times. So, in conjunction with newsyslogd, the problem has been "addressed". -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/