From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 18 11:42:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom1-253.telepath.com [216.14.1.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74E8C37B424 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2000 11:42:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 50482 invoked by uid 100); 18 Sep 2000 18:41:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14790.25071.254295.658898@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:41:51 -0500 (CDT) To: current@freebsd.org Subject: periodic no longer usable by users? X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems that recent (the last two weeks?) changes to periodic have changed things so that non-root users of it no longer get any output. A simple fix would be to change the default output to $USER (not yet tested). However, having a user-specific periodic.conf would be a lot more useful. But I wanted to see what others thought of it before trying it.