On Fri, June 8, 2007 2:10 am, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:26, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> Or some way to get periodic to only tell me stuff I *need* to know, >> instead of telling me every time it cleans the damn toilet. > > Have you looked at the manpage for periodic.conf(5)? > > As an example, > > daily_show_success="NO" > daily_show_info="NO" > > in /etc/periodic.conf will cut the daily messages down to only what > periodic(8) thinks you *have* to know - likewise for weekly and > monthly.
D'oh! Sorry. No excuse. Actually, I mistakenly tried 'man periodic' in the wrong shell window, on a Linux box, and gotten nowhere, but that's still no excuse, really... -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"