[wplug] cron

Chris vze2f6h6 at verizon.net
Fri May 16 08:43:44 EDT 2003


Where would I put that?

Chris Romano

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Jonathan S. Billings
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 1:01 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: Re: [wplug] cron


On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 04:44  PM, Bob Schmertz wrote:
> Cron mails the output of your scripts to the owner of the cron job, in
> this case, root.  Check your mail as root.

You can direct the mail to someone other than root by putting a line 
that looks like this:

MAILTO=billings

or

MAILTO=billings at monkeybot.com

I use this to avoid annoying the person who actually reads root's mail.

jonathan

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