From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 9 8:28:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bcfw1d.bridge.com (bcfw1d.ext.bridge.com [167.76.159.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5670537B6AE for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:28:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bcfw1d.bridge.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) id f09GT8I14134 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:29:08 -0600 (CST) Received: from unknown(167.76.56.34) by bcfw1d.bridge.com via smap (V5.5) id xma014053; Tue, 9 Jan 01 10:28:49 -0600 Received: from mnmailhost (mnmailhost.bridge.com [167.76.155.14]) by mail1srv.bridge.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA27598 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:27:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from 89-7 by mnmailhost (SMI-8.6/SMI-4.1) id LAA09871; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 11:27:44 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: $host daily run output References: <66joeq0k.fsf@tim.bridge.com> <20010109155918.A94930@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> <3A5B288B.A6A90EEB@i-clue.de> From: Tim Ayers Date: 09 Jan 2001 10:27:44 -0600 In-Reply-To: Christoph Sold's message of "Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:04:43 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "C" == Christoph Sold writes: C> Edwin Groothuis schrieb: >> >> On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 08:52:59AM -0600, Tim Ayers wrote: >> > I have two FreeBSD 4.1.1 machines. On one, 'root' gets email messages >> > about "daily run output", "security check output", "weekly run >> > output", etc. I would like to enable these checks on the other box, >> > but haven't figured out how. Thanks in advance for the help. >> >> On the one *with*, you should check /etc/crontab and compare it >> with the one *without*. As far as I know, these things are installeed >> by default... Yep. I did a 'crontab -l' as root and didn't see it. I didn't know about /etc/crontab. Thanks, Edwin. C> also check /etc/aliases. Don't forget to "newaliases". This was the problem. Duh! Thanks, Christoph. I have a SunOS background. FreeBSD is so familiar and yet so foreign that sometimes I forget to look at the obvious things. Hope you have a very nice day, :-) Tim Ayers (tayers@bridge.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message