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Date:      18 Apr 2005 09:20:44 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        gjbailey@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail - massive logs
Message-ID:  <4464ykz0er.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <200504180736.j3I7aSDB018255@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <48a5f32a05041800062f5a484f@mail.gmail.com> <200504180736.j3I7aSDB018255@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> writes:

> Now if you want to avoid any log, you must make sure you are not
> trying to send any email either, that is no cron, no periodic, no
> nothing. Because all these do send result by email, which means
> sendmail by default.

Just to be (a little more) clear:
these defaults can be changed.  
For example, setting daily_output, weekly_output, and monthly_output
in your periodic.conf can send the output to files instead of as mail
messages.  



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