Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:24:42 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kyle Jensen <kljgroups@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Sending nightly cron job output without running sendmail Message-ID: <200502102024.42558.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <fa357bee05021020041f5a004c@mail.gmail.com> References: <fa357bee05021020041f5a004c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:04 pm, Kyle Jensen <kljgroups@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have deactivated sendmail via > > sendmail_enable="NONE" > > in my /etc/rc.conf. However, I > would like to receive the output > of my periodic cron jobs via email. > How can I configure my system for > this? sendmail_enable="NO" This disables sendmail's incoming mail service, but it will still deliver system mail. I also use this: sendmail_flags="-q1m" This means sendmail will process the queue once a minute. Also, in my crontab, I have: MAILTO=username ... which will email the output of cron jobs to username. I only use this in my local crontabs, but I guess you could put this in the main one. - jt
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