From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 20 13: 0:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C7CE37B422 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8KJtsv61564; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:55:54 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8KJrZs17729; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:53:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200009201953.e8KJrZs17729@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Meyer Cc: current@freebsd.org, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: periodic no longer usable by users? In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Meyer of "Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:41:51 CDT." <14790.25071.254295.658898@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 20:53:35 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message