On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 10:45, Edd wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to cut down on the amount of mail I recieve in my root > mailbox. I kno this could be done by turning off the periodic tasks. I > am happy to tuen off the status daily, but would still like to recieve > the security mail ONLY when something is out of the norm. I have looked > at making a periodic.conf, but dont really know how to go about this. > Can anyone help?
Hi! Copy the periodic.conf file from your /etc/defaults directory to /etc and then edit to your liking. You can also turn off the default to mail the output and have it log to a file instead. eg. daily_output="/var/log/daily.log" Cheers, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgpkey/nelis.asc "Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are."
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