Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 13:58:34 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com>, =?UTF-8?B?0KDRg9GB0LvQsNC9INCR0YPRgNGF?= =?UTF-8?B?0LDQvdC+0LI=?= <r100500b@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: how to change daily cron emails to go to user account instead of root Message-ID: <55E2FDFA.7090301@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <55E2F727.2040804@gmail.com> References: <55DF057F.6040205@gmail.com> <55DF0C75.5000907@qeng-ho.org> <55DF0DB3.3040400@qeng-ho.org> <CAGzH002f-YFRMKweeBMvcLvkx1oxnsNMHTNPRJ%2B8rSCz4kxHBg@mail.gmail.com> <55E2F727.2040804@gmail.com>
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On 30/08/2015 13:29, Ernie Luzar wrote:
> Руслан Бурханов wrote:
>> man cron
>>
>> -m mailto
>> Overrides the default recipient for cron mail. Each
>> crontab(5)
>> without MAILTO explicitly set will send mail to the
>> mailto mail‐
>> box. Sending mail will be disabled by default if mailto
>> set to a
>> null string, usually specified in a shell as '' or "".
>>
>> So you just can add this option on cron flags from rc.conf, like:
>>
>> cron_flags="-m 'root@mymail.com <mailto:root@mymail.com>'"
>>
>> and restart cron daemon.
> snip
>
> This method seemed the simplest so I gave it a try.
> The host has a user account called bob. I want all cron email to go to
> bob and not root.
> I use postfix and sendmail is disabled.
>
> I put cron_flags="-m bob" in /etc/rc.conf and rebooted the host.
> Next morning the daily cron email still went to root.
>
> 1. Is there a way to scan rc.conf to verify all the included options are
> valid and accepted?
> 2. Since root and bob are on the same host is @mydomain really required?
> 3. Any ideas why it did not work and no errors were generated?
The periodic script does its own output using this:
output_pipe()
{
# Where's our output going ?
eval output=\$${1##*/}_output
case "$output" in
/*) pipe="cat >>$output";;
"") pipe=cat;;
*) pipe="mail -E -s '$host ${2}${2:+ }${1##*/} run output' $output";;
esac
eval $pipe
}
You need to override the various *_output variables periodic uses in
/etc/periodic.conf. See my earlier mail on the subject.
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