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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.