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Date:      Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:29:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
To:        "Henning, Brian" <brian.henning@navitaire.com>
Cc:        " (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: automatic messages from root
Message-ID:  <20020823092830.N970-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com>
In-Reply-To: <E1846117A30764468D2192D5A48541CC03894CE6@exchange.Navitaire.com>

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Rather than turn these off you should just redirect their output to log
files.

Add the following to /etc/periodic.conf (you might need to create it).

daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"					# user or /file
daily_status_security_output="/var/log/daily.log"			# user or /file
weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"					# user or /file
monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log"					# user or /file

This will send the output to those files and not fill up root's mailbox,
but you still have the output if you need it.

-philip

On Fri, 23 Aug 2002, Henning, Brian wrote:

> 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
>
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