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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!159.115.1.5!news.cccd.edu!news.gwc.cccd.edu!usenet From: Michael Peer <mpeer@gwc.cccd.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: mail for root Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 19:47:11 -0800 Organization: Golden West College Lines: 20 Message-ID: <32D318BF.2C54@gwc.cccd.edu> References: <32D2B376.69B9@cegt201.bradley.edu> <5audje$mfv@fridge-nf0.shore.net> Reply-To: mpeer@gwc.cccd.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: mpeer.csc.gwc.cccd.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) To: "Nathan V. Patwardhan" <nvp@shore.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33788 Nathan V. Patwardhan wrote: > > Mike Shover (mikefish@cegt201.bradley.edu) wrote: > : Hello. How does one keep the system from mailing root the daily and > : weekly security checks? I am the only user and I would like to stop > : receiving the mailings. Thanks alot in advance. I dont read the news > : threads often so please email me. > > Try: crontab -e and remove the daily security entry. I have the mailings redirected to my account that I do read the mail. These mailing are important! I just discovered that one of my servers that had 350MB of free space suddenly had 2.9MB of free space this AM. I did an fsck, and got all the space back, after a frantic search. > > -- > Nate [nvp@shore.net||nvp@nfic.com] > "Nasal spray ... do you know where I can score some?" > - Charles Demar from _Better Off Dead_