[wplug] cron

[Mike Griffin]

at the top line.

i construct the top of my crontabs like so:

TERM=dumb
SHELL=/bin/csh (whatever shell you want to use)
MAILTO="" or  MAILTO="someone at somewhere.com"


0 1-10 * * *  /path/to/some/script



The MAILTO="" causes the cron to not send mail at all.


Mike


On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 08:43  AM, Chris wrote:

> 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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Mike Griffin
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