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Subject: Re: Sending nightly cron job output without running sendmail
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On Thursday 10 February 2005 08:04 pm, Kyle Jensen <kljgroups@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have deactivated sendmail via
>
>     sendmail_enable="NONE"
>
> in my /etc/rc.conf.  However, I
> would like to receive the output
> of my periodic cron jobs via email.
> How can I configure my system for
> this?

sendmail_enable="NO"

This disables sendmail's incoming mail service, but it will still 
deliver system mail.

I also use this:

sendmail_flags="-q1m"

This means sendmail will process the queue once a minute.

Also, in my crontab, I have:

MAILTO=username

... which will email the output of cron jobs to username. I only use 
this in my local crontabs, but I guess you could put this in the main 
one.

- jt