From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 22:11:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DB5137B406 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 22:11:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grimoire.chen.org.nz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4J5BhZk033756; Sun, 19 May 2002 17:11:43 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@grimoire.chen.org.nz) Received: (from jonc@localhost) by grimoire.chen.org.nz (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4J5BhuB033755; Sun, 19 May 2002 17:11:43 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 17:11:43 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: Adam Lofstedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Emailing daily log and security check files Message-ID: <20020519171143.A33714@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020519150156.A33217@grimoire.chen.org.nz> <003201c1fef3$323cd4c0$6401a8c0@adam> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <003201c1fef3$323cd4c0$6401a8c0@adam>; from adaml@visimation.com on Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:08:20PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Please don't remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 10:08:20PM -0700, Adam Lofstedt wrote: > Hi, > > > Create a /etc/periodic.conf, and add the line: > > > > daily_status_security_output="username" > > weekly_output="username" > > monthly_output="username" > > > > where "username" is the *local* user to send it to. > > > > Can the user be non-local? Can I specify a non-local email address > here? Well, a quick read of /usr/sbin/periodic tends to indicate that this is possible, but the only to find out is for you to try it. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny" - Kin Hubbard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message