Bug 41965

Summary: /etc/defaults/periodic.conf is missing daily_clean_msgs_days setting
Product: Base System Reporter: Oliver Nissen <Oliver.Nissen>
Component: confAssignee: Brian Somers <brian>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.6-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Oliver Nissen 2002-08-24 10:30:01 UTC 
The configuration file /etc/defaults/periodic.conf is missing the setting daily_clean_msgs_days, i.e.:
    daily_clean_msgs_days=        # If not modified for
should read:
    daily_clean_msgs_days=7       # If not modified for

Work-around: insert the corrected line in /etc/periodic.conf.local or /etc/periodic.conf

Fix: 

see "Full Description"
How-To-Repeat: n/a
Comment 1 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-09-07 16:19:37 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->brian

Over to perodic guru.
Comment 2 Brian Somers freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2002-09-23 23:49:26 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

The daily_clean_msgs_days variable is intended to default to being blank. 
The man page suggests that this runs msgs with the default (21) days. 

See periodic.conf(5) and msgs(1)