Kevin Kadow wrote on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 06:28:13PM -0600: > So maybe what we really need is just a message at boot? > Its been 824 days since? /etc/weekly was last run
On a laptop or on a desktop workstation, i would hardly see this, because these usually boot straight into X. Do you read rc(8) output on such machines? By the way, what you suggest is already logged - as opposed to rc(8) output, which is not logged: schwa...@rhea $ ll /var/log/*.out -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 31 01:30 /var/log/daily.out -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jun 3 2009 /var/log/monthly.out -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 31 01:30 /var/log/security.out -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Jan 31 23:49 /var/log/weekly.out See the details? On that machine, i disabled monthly(8); daily(8) and security(8) ran automatically last night; and i just ran weekly(8) manually. On the other hand, on a server, i do read rc(8) output. But that's exactly where the proposed message would be useless. So i fear this suggestion won't help either.
