sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

[Matthew Seaman]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:58:23PM -0500, epilogue at allstream.net wrote:

> because i'm only running a desktop and sylpheed has it's own mail transport
> system, i shut down sendmail.  however, since making this change, i've
> noticed that the root account is no longer receiving the daily
> accounting digest.
> 
> i've had a look at the 310.accounting file in periodic, but am not sure
> what to change to get the accounting back.  is sendmail an absolute
> requirement for this service or is there some other way one of you might
> now about?

Try looking at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf instead -- it's a lot
clearer in there how to make the daily/weekly/monthly jobs write their
output to a log file rather than in an e-mail.

Nb. Don't edit /etc/defaults/periodic.conf -- just create
/etc/periodic.conf and put in there the settings you wish to override.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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