e-mail from cron
Lisa Casey
lisa at jellico.com
Wed Aug 23 14:05:46 UTC 2006
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 at jellico.com
15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 2>&1 |
sendmail service at jellico.com
30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly 2>&1 |
sendmail service at jellico.com
#
but all I get is a blank email sent to service at jellico.com
What's the best way to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Lisa Casey
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