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Date:      Tue, 8 Jul 2003 17:28:57 +0100
From:      Daniel Bye <dan@slightlystrange.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No output from periodic
Message-ID:  <20030708162857.GC91154@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org>
In-Reply-To: <09f301c3456b$4d029d20$b4be0ed0@elliotdevelop>
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 10:09:24AM -0600, Elliot Finley wrote:
> I really appreciate all the comments, but this isn't quite what I'm after.
>=20
> I _want_ cron to email me when there _is_ output.
> But I _don't want_ an email when there _isn't_ output.

But it _is_ output - look for "processed" in /usr/sbin/periodic.  If none of
the scripts it spawns say anything, this is what you get back.

If you _really_ want to suppress this message, you will either need to edit
/usr/sbin/periodic so it doesn't say anything if none of its scripts say
anything, or set up a procmail (or similar) rule to filter out the noise.

Dan

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