Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 11:53:56 -0400 From: "Chad J. Milios" <milios@ccsys.com> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to change daily cron emails to go to user account instead of root Message-ID: <21C31935-454C-4E97-8230-7059E8EAFF39@ccsys.com> In-Reply-To: <55DF057F.6040205@gmail.com> References: <55DF057F.6040205@gmail.com>
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This thread has many good answers to more finely control things like periodic’s output or cron’s output or one cron entry’s output but I have not seen the simplest and most general answer. see the first few lines of /etc/mail/aliases (or if you don’t use the sendmail in base, maybe /usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases or the equivalent for your mail system): # Pretty much everything else in this file points to "root", so # you would do well in either reading root's mailbox or forwarding # root's email from here. # root: me@my.domain you uncomment that "root:" line there and obviously replace "me@my.domain" with something along the lines of "you@your.domain” to mail off-system or just “you" to redirect to a different on-system user. (root account shouldn’t be running any mail reader software that’s any more complex than `cat /var/mail/root` and even that I wouldn’t get into the habit of doing) THEN after you change that file you MUST run the `newaliases` command (or `postalias /usr/local/etc/postfix/aliases` in the case of postfix) because a database file is actually what handles lookups after it is [re-]generated from that text file. see also: man 5 aliases man 1 newaliases > On Aug 27, 2015, at 8:41 AM, Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello list; > > 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? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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