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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
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Subject: Re: How to run periodic system reports manually
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Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 12:00:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: <c0116646-f9a9-23c9-0419-75a2edd7e96a@netfence.it> (Andrea
 Venturoli's message of "Sat, 28 May 2016 16:45:21 +0200")
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Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> writes:

> On 05/28/16 15:59, Ernie Luzar wrote:
>> I changed the cron status and security reports to go to a file instead
>> of defaulting to emailing root. Is there a way to run them manually so I
>> can verify the files are really being created and populated correctly?
>
> You mean periodic(8)?

Which, not coincidentally, documents how to send the reports to a file
without changing the scripts.