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"Dennis Olvany" <dennisolvany@gmail.com> writes:

> How do I change the e-mail address and SMTP server cron uses to e-mail the daily root report?

There are several methods.

You can configure periodic(8) itself through settings in
periodic.conf(5) [i.e., type "man 5 periodic.conf" for details].

My favorite method is by redirecting *all* of root's mail in the
aliases(5) file.

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/