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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:42:41 +0000
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Daily run reports
Message-ID:  <4ad871310910070942u71a613bar99bf460055808561@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0910071002570.19098@wonkity.com>
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Polytropon wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:09:51 +0000, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> You should see these lines in /etc/crontab:
>>>
>>> # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
>>> 1 =A0 =A0 =A0 3 =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 r=
oot =A0 =A0periodic daily
>>> 15 =A0 =A0 =A04 =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 6 =A0 =A0 =A0 r=
oot =A0 =A0periodic weekly
>>> 30 =A0 =A0 =A05 =A0 =A0 =A0 1 =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 r=
oot =A0 =A0periodic monthly
>>>
>>> You can set the MAILTO environment variable in /etc/crontab to mail to
>>> an alternate address if needed.
>>
>> Another way is to edit /etc/mail/aliases and forward mail
>> to root to your preferred account, e. g.
>>
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0root: myuser
>>
>> Note that "recompiling" sendmail's files is neccessary,
>
> To be more precise, rebuilding the aliases file.
>
>> and sendmail needs to be restarted. It is explained at the top of Makefi=
le
>> in the /etc/mail directory. It's quite easy. :-)
>
> But 'newaliases' is easier yet. =A0Is restarting sendmail after newaliase=
s
> really necessary? =A0I change aliases so rarely I've never really noticed=
.
>

No, you do not need to restart sendmail with newaliases(1).

--=20
Glen Barber



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