[Wylug-discuss] Cron report messages

[Jason Lander]

Ann,

> I've got a problem in that cron jobs that run on my server send reports
> automatically to me via an alias, but cron jobs on my workstation do
> not send automatic reports.  I can force the job to report by appending
> a nail command, but that doesn't give the clear From and Subject
> labelling that the server reports do.

Some versions of cron will allow you to add a line

  MAILTO=email at address

to the crontab file. If the cron'd commands produce any output, it
will be mailed to that address - with a sensible subject line.

- Jason