From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 19:30:14 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D4D010656C7 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:30:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixchild@live.com) Received: from blu139-omc2-s5.blu139.hotmail.com (blu139-omc2-s5.blu139.hotmail.com [65.55.175.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E7C8FC12 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:30:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from unixchild@live.com) Received: from BLU138-W40 ([65.55.162.186]) by blu139-omc2-s5.blu139.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:18:12 -0700 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [84.72.48.221] From: Warner Lambert To: Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:18:12 -0400 Importance: Normal Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Mar 2008 19:18:12.0576 (UTC) FILETIME=[CC081600:01C8929A] Subject: disable periodic scripts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:30:14 -0000 Hi How can I disable those nightly/monthly/... periodic scripts? I don't need = them, these days professional monitoring software such as nagios is used to= monitor 200+ systems. I can't read 200 mails showing me hundreds of lines = of output even if nothings happening. Am I just deleting all the /etc/perio= dic/* stuff or is there a switch like: turn_off_ancient_system_administrati= on=3D"YES" ? Tnx. _________________________________________________________________ Watch =93Cause Effect,=94 a show about real people making a real difference= . Learn more. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=3Dtext_watchcause=