CRON and mail messages

Mark Himsley mark@mdsh.com
Fri Oct 19 15:30:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:54:16 EDT you wrote:

>Can someone tell me how to prevent cron from sending errors to the "Administrator@xxxx.org".  Yes I am running as the administrator account for various reasons.  I'd like to redirect all cron messages regarding errors to another smtp account - my real one.  Can this be done?
>
>Much thanks!

Have you tried the 'MAILTO' variable in your crontab?
Or `man 5 crontab`?

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Mark Himsley
In Acton

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