periodic: condensing mails

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com> writes:

> I was reading this article:
> http://deranfangvomende.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/freebsd-periodic-mails-vs-monitoring/
> where it mentions this:
> I found turning off certain things like the “security mail” also
> disables portaudit DB updates. But I just changed my portaudit call to
> include the download.
> Somehow I had assumed that *update* would be separate from *report*.
> Is this still an issue? If so, how have people fixed it? I'm looking
> at condensing this (I'm dumping all failed ssh logins into a
> blacklist, so I don't need to know about them). I get a lot of
> material and sometimes it's a ton to read through.

I'm really not clear on what you're doing exactly. 
Maybe what you're looking for is daily_status_security_inline
rather than disabling specific checks?