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From: sgregory@pubspo.hq.af.mil (Scott Gregory)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Redirecting output of cron
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 13:10:25 GMT
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Is it possible to have cron email the results of a script it ran sent
to a list of users instead of root???

I have cron checking to see if a file had been dropped by a user.
When it sees the file it runs a script to process the file.  When it
finishes it dumps all the screen output from the script to a mail
message to root.  Is there any way to have this output mailed to the
uses that need to know if the script processed???

The script is in roots crontab since I want to control how often the
system checks and the users aren't users of the bsd box, they drop the
files into a NFS'ed directory.

Thanks

C-ya

Scott