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From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: cron daemon
Date: 07 Aug 1995 22:12:56 GMT
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: jon@enterprise.net's message of Mon, 07 Aug 95 14:52:51 GMT
> Please don't flame me if I sound totally thick here, but
> how do you stop the cron daemon from mailing everytime
> it's run a job??
according to "man 5 crontab"...
In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron(8) will look
at MAILTO if it has any reason to send mail as a result of
running commands in ``this'' crontab. If MAILTO is
defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so
named. If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=""), no
mail will be sent. Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of
the crontab. This option is useful if you decide on
/bin/mail instead of /usr/lib/sendmail as your mailer when
you install cron -- /bin/mail doesn't do aliasing, and
UUCP usually doesn't read its mail.
--
Paul Vixie
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