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Date:      Thu, 22 Jun 2000 17:59:17 -0400
From:      James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: .core file reporting in daily report 
Message-ID:  <200006222159.RAA12808@rac7.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 22:46:57 BST." <200006222146.WAA02235@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> 

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In message <200006222146.WAA02235@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>, Brian Somers writes:
> > I was trying to figureout how the periodic scripts were run when I
> > noticed that cron had coredumped back in October and left a core file in
> > /var/run/cron.  I got to thinking, it would be nice if the daily scripts
> > would report when core files are found so they can be cleaned up.
> 
> I'm about to commit a change to the way the periodic scripts are run. 
> You'll be able to tune this in /etc/periodic.conf shortly.

Wonderful.  I am about to steal the scripts to install on a bunch of Red
Hat systems.  Why is it when FreeBSD has something really nice like this
to make the sysadmin's life easier, Linux ignores it?

Jamie


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