Hi All,

This is a very minor issue, and I could possibly have missed something in the
documentation since I do not see people asking this question on the mailing
lists. So if someone could point me in the right direction it would be really
appreciated.

I am using OpenBSD 5.2 on a number of hosts, and all works great. I have
daily.local setup as follows:

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cat /etc/daily.local
ROOTBACKUP=1
VERBOSESTATUS=0
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Normal daily output is not emailed, however because I do have ROOTBACKUP=1 I
get daily emails about root backups as shown below:

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OpenBSD 5.2 (GENERIC.MP) #368: Wed Aug  1 10:04:49 MDT 2012
    dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP

 1:31AM  up 24 days,  1:40, 0 users, load averages: 0.78, 0.28, 0.15

Backing up root=/dev/rwd0a to /dev/rwd0d:
131527+0 records in
131527+0 records out
1077469184 bytes transferred in 57.954 secs (18591693 bytes/sec)
** /dev/rwd0d
** Last Mounted on /
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
1756 files, 26205 used, 490058 free (50 frags, 61251 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)

MARK FILE SYSTEM CLEAN? yes


***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
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The reason that I am getting this output makes sense, since the daily manpage
states:

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If set to 0, df(1), dump(8), netstat(1), and ruptime(1)
are skipped.  Consequently, if none of the other
commands produce any output, no mail will be sent to
root.
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So what would be the correct way to instruct the rootbackup process not to
produce output unless something is wrong?

Thank you!
--peter

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