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Date:      Thu, 5 Aug 2010 17:30:31 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: periodic issue, email
Message-ID:  <20100805173031.4156d30e@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100805161048.GA42711@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
References:  <20100805161048.GA42711@eggman.experts-exchange.com>

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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"




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