Periodic mail destination

tlc337

tlc337

Hello. I have a question. I have set my periodic jobs to email a different account than root by creating a /etc/periodic.conf instead of altering /etc/defaults/periodic.conf.

All the jobs obey this new setting except seemingly for /etc/periodic/security. This job still send the email to root. The other mail goes correctly to the new account (and even notes that the security mail comes separately).

I looked at the job, and I can't see anything different than the other jobs. Any thoughts. Thanks!
 
Code: 
$ grep _output= periodic.conf 
daily_output="root"					# user or /file
daily_status_security_output="root"			# user or /file
weekly_output="root"					# user or /file
monthly_output="root"					# user or /file

You caught (overruled) all of these?
 
It's probably simpler just to redirect root's mail. Just edit /etc/aliases. If you modified it make sure you run # newaliases.
 
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