From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 2 01:54:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4323116A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 01:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.8ball.co.za (8ball.co.za [196.22.201.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BD543D55 for ; Wed, 2 Jun 2004 01:54:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nelis@8ball.co.za) Received: (qmail 76278 invoked by uid 89); 2 Jun 2004 08:54:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.10.9?) (192.168.10.9) by 192.168.10.1 with SMTP; 2 Jun 2004 08:54:26 -0000 From: Nelis Lamprecht To: Edd In-Reply-To: <200406020845.i528j3h25965@server1.web-mania.com> References: <200406020845.i528j3h25965@server1.web-mania.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-TkZzWD5obZv5Og2GJwEf" Organization: 8ball Network Solutions Message-Id: <1086166530.2117.5.camel@nelis.brabys.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 10:55:30 +0200 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic configuration X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: nelis@8ball.co.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 08:54:46 -0000 --=-TkZzWD5obZv5Og2GJwEf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 10:45, Edd wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to cut down on the amount of mail I recieve in my root > mailbox. I kno this could be done by turning off the periodic tasks. I > am happy to tuen off the status daily, but would still like to recieve > the security mail ONLY when something is out of the norm. I have looked > at making a periodic.conf, but dont really know how to go about this. > Can anyone help? Hi! Copy the periodic.conf file from your /etc/defaults directory to /etc and then edit to your liking. You can also turn off the default to mail the output and have it log to a file instead. eg. daily_output=3D"/var/log/daily.log" Cheers, --=20 Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are." --=-TkZzWD5obZv5Og2GJwEf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAvZYCQfIMKiRMCrERAi/YAJ926++DcLnVxTFwDkOCZup6l3Eg+wCgtqH7 Ps2Kvgvew0YNG/DmDBEqSBc= =YUqt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-TkZzWD5obZv5Og2GJwEf--