Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:59:28 -0700 From: Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periodic issue, email Message-ID: <20100805165925.GD42711@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20100805173031.4156d30e@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20100805161048.GA42711@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <20100805173031.4156d30e@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:30:31PM +0100, RW thus spake: >On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:10:53 -0700 >Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to get periodic to not send mail to root, and only log, >> but have been unsuccessful thus far. >> > >> Here are the contents of my /etc/periodic.conf file (0644, root, >> wheel): >> daily_output="/var/log/daily.log" >> weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log" >> monthly_output="//var/log/monthly.log" > >Is it perhaps the security log that you are seeing? You are missing: > >security_output="/var/log/security.log" > That was it! Thank you. I really didn't even think to look at that, because the security isn't enabled in crontab. But I suppose, it had to do with it being noted in defaults. Thanks, Jason
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