how to change daily cron emails to go to user account instead of root

[Matthew Seaman]

On 2015/08/27 13:41, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> How do I change the daily cron emails to go to user account instead of
> root? I don't want any cron email going to root any more.
> 
> man 5 crontab says the cron environment variable MAILTO = "account user
> name" is way to change the cron email from the default of "root" to the
> "account user name" you want.
> 
> The part that is not clear is where do I place this MAILTO environment
> variable? Do I edit /etc/crontab and pace it next to the PATH variable
> or maybe in /etc/periodic.conf or /etc/csh.cshrc or /boot/loader.conf?

Add:

daily_output="email at addr.ess"

to /etc/periodic.conf

Or you can give it a file name and it will write the output there --
/var/log/daily.log is recommended as it's already set up to be rotated
by newsyslog(8)

	Matthew


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