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Date:      Tue, 8 Jul 2003 10:31:45 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Elliot Finley <elliot@etv.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: No output from periodic
Message-ID:  <20030708153145.GL87950@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <087c01c34560$7ed08e80$b4be0ed0@elliotdevelop>
References:  <087c01c34560$7ed08e80$b4be0ed0@elliotdevelop>

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In the last episode (Jul 08), Elliot Finley said:
> I have a periodic that runs every 15 minutes.  I have 5 scripts in
> the directory that it processes.  Most of the time, the 5 scripts
> don't have to do anything, and thus don't have any output.  When that
> happens, periodic outputs 'No output from the 5 files processed'.
> 
> Is there a way to make periodic not output anything so that I don't
> get an email from cron every 15 minutes?

Commenting out that line in /usr/sbin/periodic seems to be the way to
go.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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