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From: "Allen May" <umayxa3@donet.com>
To: "Simon Dick" <simond@irrelevant.org>
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Subject: Re: Periodic
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:39:06 -0500
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I hate to sound dim... I wanna make sure I do this right.
If I only want to change three variables, the content of my
/etc/periodic.conf file will only have three lines.. a line for each change.
I don't have to copy-and-hack the /etc/default/periodic.conf to
/etc/periodic.conf with my given values... right?

So, my /etc/periodic.conf file could contain only:
   daily_show_success=NO
   daily_show_info=NO
   daily_show_badconfig=NO

If I wanted to turn those features off..right?

Thanks

-Allen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Dick" <simond@irrelevant.org>
To: "Allen May" <umayxa3@donet.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Periodic


> On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:52:21AM -0500, Allen May wrote:
> >
> >    The man for periodic tells me:
> >
> >         To only see important information from daily periodic jobs, add
> >    the fol­
> >         lowing lines to /etc/periodic.conf:
> >       daily_show_success=NO
> >       daily_show_info=NO
> >       daily_show_badconfig=NO
> >    Since I don't currently have a /etc/perodic.conf file, can I just
> >    create one and only have the three lines above and be done?
> >    Or do I need to COPY the /etc/defaults/periodic.conf file and hack it
> >    with the three above lines?
>
> You create a new /etc/periodic.conf file, this one has the effect of
> changing the defaults which are defined in the defaults/periodic.conf
> file (which shouldn't be changed apart from when upgrading freebsd).
>
> --
> Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org
> "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?"
>


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