Subject: misc/37399: Useless mail
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <john@iastate.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/17/2007 14:00:00
>Number: 37399
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: useless mail from crontab scripts
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Nov 17 14:00:00 +0000 2007
>Originator: john@iastate.edu
>Release: NetBSD 3.0
>Organization:
Iowa State University
>Environment:
System: NetBSD kerberos-1.iastate.edu 3.0 NetBSD 3.0 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Dec 19 01:04:02 UTC 2005 builds@works.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/i386/200512182024Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
There should be a way in /etc/{daily,weekly,monthly}.conf
to not have these things emailed, just put in log files.
I do not need dozens of emails each week from my machines
saying pointless stuff like:
Rebuilding locate database:
>How-To-Repeat:
N/A
>Fix:
crobtab -e