Re: cron -> email results

Boris Goldowsky <boris-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]> Mon, 10 Jan 2005 09:34:24 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 00:25 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 21:15, you wrote:
> > All output of a cronjob is always emailed to the owner of the specific
> > cron. Have u set up the cron as another user?
> >
> > //Regards, Torbjorn
> >
> It is done from my 'root' crontab...

The results will then get mailed to 'root' -- if you're running sendmail
locally you can have all of root's mail forwarded to your real email
address by editing /etc/aliases .

Even easier, some versions of cron will respect a MAILTO setting in the
crontab file itself:

[email protected]
00 02 1 * * /usr/local/bin/hdup monthly gads.hill

check 'man 5 crontab' to see if your version has this setting.

Bng

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Boris Goldowsky <boris-FrUbXkNCsVf2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]>