Tip of the Day: Setting the Email Address for FreeBSD's Daily/Weekly/Monthly Reports
FreeBSD by default runs three sets of periodic scripts that outputs a volume of information about your system's current state. The output of these scripts are sent to the root account's mailbox. If you are like me and have a number of FreeBSD servers, its a pain to go check this mailbox on each machine. Well here is an easy fix to send the output of the scripts to any email address.
Edit /etc/periodic.conf and add:
daily_output="ben@domain.com"
daily_status_security_output="ben@domain.com"
weekly_output="ben@domain.com"
monthly_output="ben@domain.com"
To test that this is working run: periodic daily as root. The security run output should arrive in your mailbox.
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