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Date:      Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:59:28 -0700
From:      Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: periodic issue, email
Message-ID:  <20100805165925.GD42711@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100805173031.4156d30e@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <20100805161048.GA42711@eggman.experts-exchange.com> <20100805173031.4156d30e@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:30:31PM +0100, RW thus spake:
>On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:10:53 -0700
>Jason <jhelfman@e-e.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to get periodic to not send mail to root, and only log,
>> but have been unsuccessful thus far.
>>
>
>> Here are the contents of my /etc/periodic.conf file (0644, root,
>> wheel):
>> daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"
>> weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"
>> monthly_output="//var/log/monthly.log"
>
>Is it perhaps the security log that you are seeing? You are missing:
>
>security_output="/var/log/security.log"
>
That was it! Thank you. 

I really didn't even think to look at that, because the security isn't
enabled in crontab. But I suppose, it had to do with it being noted in
defaults.

Thanks,
Jason



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