Thanks for this info Bret - I'm still new to Linux and was trying to figure out how to change who the messages went to instead of root. :)
Been wanting to change that to an actual account that I *DO* pull mail for. :) Jim Hale --- 'The OS Tells The PC What To Do With Itself" - Me, 1990 --- Visit Our MIDI & Digital Audio Website at http://hale.dyndns.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bret Hughes Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 8:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Config of LogWatch and Cron On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 05:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > How to midify the config ( LogWatch,Cron etc ) of RedHat 7.2 ? Because > the root account always receive mails ( report of LogWatch and Cron ) > each day... I want to reset the default time to delay... > So, can you help me ? > First I would like to say I believe this is a bad idea. Now lets see what is really happening. Cron is setup to run certian programs at given intervals, see in the /etc/ directory cron.daily cron.monthly cron.weekly cron.d cron.hourly crontab the way cron works is that when a program runs, any output gets mailed to the user defined in the MAILTO=blahblah variable which can be changed to any valid email address you don't like having to deal with all the messages I guess. As I see it you can do one of several things: set the programs to only run once a week - move the files from the hourly and daily dirs to weekly don't run logcheck at all since you are not going to look at it. send all the mail to /dev/null since you are not going to look at it anyway delete the /var/spool/mail/root file periodically you could even do it via cron both of these are really bad ideas modify /etc/aliases to have root's mail sent to you and use procmail filter to put it into a directory so you don't have to deal with it daily. Before you do any of the above make sure the machine is not connected to the net and so no one will hack it and use it to attack other machines. Probably should do this any way since you are not going to look at any of the minimal stuff that RH sets up to let you know when something odd id happening. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
