[Wylug-discuss] Cron report messages

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 16 Dec 2005 11:04, Jason Lander wrote:
> 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.
>
Hmm - server (produces report) is set with MAILTO=email and workstation 
(no report) was set to MAILTO=email at address.  Changed that to match 
server, but still no report.  There must be something else.

Anne
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