Craig Sanders wrote:
4. set up a cron job (to run, say, every 5 minutes) to run the commands in step 3 (i.e. "cd /var/lib/misc ; make"). you probably want to redirect stdout and stderr to /dev/null so that root's mail doesn't get flooded with make's output (mostly "make: Nothing to be done for `all'." unless passwd,group, or shadow have changed)
This is what I added to my /etc/crontab file:*/5 * * * * root cd /var/lib/misc && make | grep -v "make: Nothing to be done for .all."
If changes do occur, then I will see output from them, although the output doesn't seem that meaningful -- as in you don't see which user changed his/her password....
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