From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 9:29:34 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 9758637B400 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:29:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (cypress.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2316443E72 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:29:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from cypress.adhesivemedia.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7NGTVcH003327; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:29:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by cypress.adhesivemedia.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g7NGTVjI003324; Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:29:31 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cypress.adhesivemedia.com: philip owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:29:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Philip Hallstrom To: "Henning, Brian" Cc: " (E-mail)" Subject: Re: automatic messages from root In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020823092830.N970-100000@cypress.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 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 > > 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