From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 8:36:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C11337B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:36:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C63543E6E for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com) Received: from wbtsystems.com (granite.dublin.wbtsystems.com [193.120.231.14]) by slate.dublin.wbtsystems.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with SMTP id g7NFahSa069043; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:36:43 +0100 (IST) Received: from 193.120.231.252 (SquirrelMail authenticated user bb) by webmail.wbtsystems.com with HTTP; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:36:44 +0100 (IST) Message-ID: <1611.193.120.231.252.1030117004.squirrel@webmail.wbtsystems.com> Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 16:36:44 +0100 (IST) Subject: Re: automatic messages from root From: "Barry Byrne" To: In-Reply-To: References: Cc: Reply-To: barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.7) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: slate/MIMEDefang 2.18 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) 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 Brian: Check out /etc/periodic/* and read the man page for periodic.conf FreeBSD runs numerous housekeeping tasks on daily/weekly/monthly basis. Cheers, Barry -- Barry Byrne IT Manager, WBT Systems, Dublin, Ireland Email: barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com Henning, Brian said: > Hello- > i get automatic emails from root reguarding the system security. i > looked to see if there was a crontab for it, but i didn't see it > anywhere. how can i turn these on or off. > > thanks, > brian > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message