daily/weekly/monthly periodic output

[Corey Dulecki]

Thank you all for your very fast assistance!

Greg Larkin wrote:
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> Corey Dulecki wrote:
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>> I have FreeBSD 6.2 running on IBM hardware, single CPU.  This server
>> does not have sendmail enabled at all, i.e., in /etc/rc.conf, all four
>> of the "sendmail_xxx" enablers are set to "NO".  Today, the /var
>> filesystem ran out of inodes.
>>
>> I tracked the issue down to files that keep appearing in
>> /var/spool/clientmqueue.  I've researched enough to understand that
>> these files represent emails that cannot be sent, presumably because I
>> do not have a mail server running on the system.  I do not want to
>> enable sendmail or any other client; what I want to do is have the
>> processes which generate these emails send their information to a log,
>> which I will check manually.  I believe these emails are being generated
>> by the daily/weekly/monthly periodic processes, something that I didn't
>> even know existed until I ran out of inodes.
>>
>> My question is this:  How can I make it so that these periodic processes
>> simply log their messages instead of sending emails that get stuck in
>> clientmqueue?  Alternatively, if I can't do that, how do I simply turn
>> off these emails entirely so that they are not sent?
>>     
>
> Hi Corey,
>
> If you don't already have an /etc/periodic.conf file, create one with
> the following entries:
>
> daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"                       # user or /file
> daily_status_security_output="/var/log/daily.log"       # user or /file
> weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"                     # user or /file
> monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log"                   # user or /file
>
> All of the output from the periodic scripts will be redirected to those
> files.  You'll likely want to rotate those files regularly.  I have the
> following in my /etc/newsyslog.conf file:
>
> /var/log/daily.log                      640  7     *    @T00  JN
> /var/log/monthly.log                    640  12    *    $M1D0 JN
> /var/log/weekly.log                     640  5     1    $W6D0 JN
>
> Regards,
> Greg
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