Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:52:31 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Damian Gerow <damian@sentex.net> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daily/weekly/monthly output aggregation Message-ID: <20031118084808.E30811@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20031117205537.GJ98840@sentex.net> References: <20031117203641.GG98840@sentex.net> <20031117205537.GJ98840@sentex.net>
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Damian Gerow wrote:
> b) This is a pretty big problem that nothing has addressed yet.
periodic(8) can be told to send its output to a file.
'man periodic.conf' says:
dir_output
(path or list) What to do with the output of the scripts envoked
from the directory dir. If this variable is set to an absolute
path name, output is logged to that file, otherwise it is taken
as one or more space separated email addresses and mailed to
those users. If this variable is not set or is empty, output is
sent to standard output.
For an unattended machine, suitable values for daily_output,
weekly_output, and monthly_output might be
``/var/log/daily.log'', ``/var/log/weekly.log'', and
``/var/log/monthly.log'' respectively, as newsyslog(8) will
rotate these files (if they exists) at the appropriate times.
So, in conjunction with newsyslogd, the problem has been "addressed".
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Andy Farkas
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Speednet Communications
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