Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:36:10 +0000 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: Allen May <umayxa3@donet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Periodic Message-ID: <20020109173610.GB9870@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <09fd01c1992e$01d02c90$0401a8c0@Hewey> References: <09fd01c1992e$01d02c90$0401a8c0@Hewey>
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:52:21AM -0500, Allen May wrote: > > The man for periodic tells me: > > To only see important information from daily periodic jobs, add > the fol > lowing lines to /etc/periodic.conf: > daily_show_success=NO > daily_show_info=NO > daily_show_badconfig=NO > Since I don't currently have a /etc/perodic.conf file, can I just > create one and only have the three lines above and be done? > Or do I need to COPY the /etc/defaults/periodic.conf file and hack it > with the three above lines? You create a new /etc/periodic.conf file, this one has the effect of changing the defaults which are defined in the defaults/periodic.conf file (which shouldn't be changed apart from when upgrading freebsd). -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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