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[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"

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.

Jonathan