Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 13:14:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> To: "Jonathan McKeown" <jonathan@hst.org.za> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/preserve Message-ID: <33733.216.230.84.67.1181326446.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> In-Reply-To: <200706080910.57326.jonathan@hst.org.za> References: <34845.216.230.84.67.1181240774.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com> <200706080910.57326.jonathan@hst.org.za>
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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... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?
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