Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:34:00 -0800 From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Kyle Jensen <kljgroups@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Sending nightly cron job output without running sendmail Message-ID: <200502102034.00362.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <200502102024.42558.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <fa357bee05021020041f5a004c@mail.gmail.com> <200502102024.42558.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:24 pm, Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> wrote: > 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. Also, almost forgot, but if you want the output of periodic jobs (daily, weekly, monthly, security run) mailed to username instead of root, you can put this in your /etc/mail/aliases: root: username This will mail everything that would normally go to root to username, which includes those periodic jobs. If you want to change this on a more granular level, check /etc/defaults/periodic.conf - jt
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