Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:05:14 -0400 From: "Lisa Casey" <lisa@jellico.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: e-mail from cron Message-ID: <012e01c6c6bd$29966ac0$d51a2cd0@lisac>
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Hi, This ought to be a fairly simple question, but I've googled and can't really find the answer. I'ld like to have the reports from the system cron jobs (daily run output, security run output, weekly run output and monthly run output) sent to an e-mail address other than root, but I want all the "postmaster" stuff (mailer-daemon emails, etc.) to continue going to root (so I don't particularly want to just forward root's mail somewhere using the aliases file). In /etc/crontab, I changed this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly # to this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail service@jellico.com 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail service@jellico.com 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail service@jellico.com # but all I get is a blank email sent to service@jellico.com What's the best way to accomplish this? Thanks, Lisa Casey
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