From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 17:50:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB10106566C for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 17:50:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2474C8FC20 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 17:50:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (unknown [209.249.190.124]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7BB39B96F; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 13:50:12 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 12:11:39 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.2-CBSD-20110714-p13; KDE/4.5.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201201031036.50837.jhb@freebsd.org> <7BCE47D4-8B1E-49DC-B5E1-9640A41AAAFB@lists.zabbadoz.net> In-Reply-To: <7BCE47D4-8B1E-49DC-B5E1-9640A41AAAFB@lists.zabbadoz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201206041211.39226.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Mon, 04 Jun 2012 13:50:12 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periodic emails X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 17:50:13 -0000 On Saturday, June 02, 2012 2:53:49 pm Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > > On 3. Jan 2012, at 15:36 , John Baldwin wrote: > > > On Monday, January 02, 2012 4:29:18 pm Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> why do we send all these empty headings for periodic emails or given there is > >> no output to this one can we > >> > >> 1) suppress the empty sections (to me that sounds a bit like a wrong > >> return code or something maybe?), and > >> 2) add an option to suppress "empty" periodic emails entirely? > > > > Have you tried 'daily_show_success="NO"' in /etc/periodic.conf? > > > > (Also security_show_success, weekly_show_success, and monthly_show_success?) > > > > Those certainly have fixed both 1) and 2) for me. > > > How did you fix this part of the daily emails? > > ---- > > Security check: > (output mailed separately) > > -- End of daily output -- > ---- > > I guess I could set daily_status_security_output="" given the value or the > exported value derived from it are not used elsewhere? But it would still > leave the "Security check" for the email:( That part I have not fixed (my dailies always have something else to report). I would be happy with just dropping that bit of the e-mail entirely. It serves no useful purpose AFAICT. -- John Baldwin