Re: /var/preserve

2007-06-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
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

Re: /var/preserve

2007-06-08 Thread Richard Lynch
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

/var/preserve

2007-06-07 Thread Richard Lynch
So, I found it in 'man hier' as for historical reasons but just what is /var/preserve and why is it getting cleaned out every day and why am I getting yet another line in a too-long email about it?... I'm also looking at doing something like this: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/5238 but wondering

Re: /var/preserve

2007-06-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007, Richard Lynch wrote: So, I found it in 'man hier' as for historical reasons but just what is /var/preserve and why is it getting cleaned out every day and why am I getting yet another line in a too-long email about it?... Historically /var/preserve is used by the ``vi