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Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:14:06 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com>
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On Fri, June 8, 2007 2:10 am, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:26, Richard Lynch wrote:
>
>> Or some way to get periodic to only tell me stuff I *need* to know,
>> instead of telling me every time it cleans the damn toilet.
>
> Have you looked at the manpage for periodic.conf(5)?
>
> As an example,
>
> daily_show_success="NO"
> daily_show_info="NO"
>
> in /etc/periodic.conf will cut the daily messages down to only what
> periodic(8) thinks you *have* to know - likewise for weekly and
> monthly.

D'oh!

Sorry.  No excuse.

Actually, I mistakenly tried 'man periodic' in the wrong shell window,
on a Linux box, and gotten nowhere, but that's still no excuse,
really...

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