On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 10:55:30AM +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 10:45, Edd wrote:
> > 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?
> 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"
There's no need to copy the whole of /etc/defaults/periodic.conf --
just use /etc/defaults/periodic.conf, and copy only those settings you
want to override into /etc/periodic.conf. It works in exactly the
same way as /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf.
Cheers,
Matthew
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