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Subject: Re: How to run periodic system reports manually
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On 05/28/16 15:59, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> I changed the cron status and security reports to go to a file instead
> of defaulting to emailing root. Is there a way to run them manually so I
> can verify the files are really being created and populated correctly?

You mean periodic(8)?

  bye
	av.