Re: [ILUG] Cron

From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Wed 20 Jun 2001 - 16:32:42 IST

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On Wednesday 20 June 2001 15:57, Jason A. Corcoran. wrote:

> I have a cron job set up to fetchmail every 5 mins, how do I stop the crom
> mail generated being sent to my account, I want it sent to an admin
> account.

Cron jobs only send mail if they produce output, so either redirect
the output of the job to a file, or set MAILTO to change the person
the job is mailed to. See "man 5 crontab" for details.

        Colm (why didn't you "see 'man 5 crontab'" *first*)

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