Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 16:42:12 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: Aflatoon Aflatooni <aaflatooni@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Daily run reports Message-ID: <20091007164212.f7dff406.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310910070609r126fb880he201b9f2aa2d3f3f@mail.gmail.com> References: <496325.97096.qm@web56204.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <4ad871310910070609r126fb880he201b9f2aa2d3f3f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 13:09:51 +0000, Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote: > You should see these lines in /etc/crontab: > > # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. > 1 3 * * * root periodic daily > 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly > 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly > > You can set the MAILTO environment variable in /etc/crontab to mail to > an alternate address if needed. Another way is to edit /etc/mail/aliases and forward mail to root to your preferred account, e. g. root: myuser Note that "recompiling" sendmail's files is neccessary, and sendmail needs to be restarted. It is explained at the top of Makefile in the /etc/mail directory. It's quite easy. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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