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.
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Tip of the Day: Set Git Author and Email [Updated]
05/13/2008
Quick tip, especially if you use GitHub with Gravatar so a little profile picture will show up on GitHub you likely need to set your Author and Email for Git. So instead of falling back to your system username and machine name for an email address (at least on the Mac), and your account's long name for author name, Git will use the correct information and your gravatar will show up in GitHub (minimally just match your email with your Gravatar account).
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