Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:53:35 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: periodic no longer usable by users? Message-ID: <200009201953.e8KJrZs17729@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> of "Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:41:51 CDT." <14790.25071.254295.658898@guru.mired.org>
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> It seems that recent (the last two weeks?) changes to periodic have
> changed things so that non-root users of it no longer get any output.
>
> A simple fix would be to change the default output to $USER (not yet
> tested). However, having a user-specific periodic.conf would be a lot
> more useful. But I wanted to see what others thought of it before
> trying it.
I've tweaked things so that the default is to send output to stdout
again, and so that it uses ${TMPDIR:-/tmp} for it's temporary files.
Let me know if there are any further problems.
> <mike
Cheers.
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