periodic emails

[John Baldwin]

On Saturday, June 02, 2012 2:53:49 pm Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> 
> On 3. Jan 2012, at 15:36 , John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> > On Monday, January 02, 2012 4:29:18 pm Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> why do we send all these empty headings for periodic emails or given there is
> >> no output to this one can we
> >> 
> >> 1) suppress the empty sections (to me that sounds a bit like a wrong
> >>   return code or something maybe?), and
> >> 2) add an option to suppress "empty" periodic emails entirely?
> > 
> > Have you tried 'daily_show_success="NO"' in /etc/periodic.conf?
> > 
> > (Also security_show_success, weekly_show_success, and monthly_show_success?)
> > 
> > Those certainly have fixed both 1) and 2) for me.
> 
> 
> How did you fix this part of the daily emails?
> 
> ----
> 
> Security check:
>    (output mailed separately)
> 
> -- End of daily output --
> ----
> 
> I guess I could set daily_status_security_output="" given the value or the
> exported value derived from it are not used elsewhere?  But it would still
> leave the "Security check" for the email:(

That part I have not fixed (my dailies always have something else to report).

I would be happy with just dropping that bit of the e-mail entirely.  It
serves no useful purpose AFAICT.

-- 
John Baldwin