On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:55:54AM -0600, Chris wrote: [ Redirecting output of cron jobs ]
> Very cool! Now, what if you do the same, but instead of the normal
> crons, can something like this be done with the /etc/periodic/daily,
> weekly, and monthly routines?
If you don't have one already, create a /etc/periodic.conf file, and
within it set some variables:
daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"
weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"
monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log"
This will direct the output to those log files, rather than e-mailing
to root. If you use precisely those file names, the log files will be
automatically cycled by newsyslog(8).
Refer to /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for all the other stuff you can
modify. /etc/periodic.conf has exactly the same relation to
/etc/defaults/periodic.conf as /etc/rc.conf does to
/etc/defaults/rc.conf.
Cheers,
Matthew
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