Kevin Kadow wrote on Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 06:28:13PM -0600:

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> So maybe what we really need is just a message at boot?
> Its been 824 days since? /etc/weekly was last run

On a laptop or on a desktop workstation, i would hardly see this,
because these usually boot straight into X.  Do you read rc(8)
output on such machines?

By the way, what you suggest is already logged - as opposed to rc(8)
output, which is not logged:

  schwarze@rhea $ ll /var/log/*.out
  -rw-------  1 root  wheel  0 Jan 31 01:30 /var/log/daily.out
  -rw-------  1 root  wheel  0 Jun  3  2009 /var/log/monthly.out
  -rw-------  1 root  wheel  0 Jan 31 01:30 /var/log/security.out
  -rw-------  1 root  wheel  0 Jan 31 23:49 /var/log/weekly.out

See the details?
On that machine, i disabled monthly(8); daily(8) and security(8)
ran automatically last night; and i just ran weekly(8) manually.

On the other hand, on a server, i do read rc(8) output.
But that's exactly where the proposed message would be useless.

So i fear this suggestion won't help either.