Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:19:37 +0000 From: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> To: "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse@gmx.net> Cc: Kelly Martin <kellymartin@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: changing cron's From: address in emails Message-ID: <d36406630910251019g74ab55cclc4e829ec35b3cd35@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091025021009.051de285.dcdowse@gmx.net> References: <1338880b0910240008h5d5e7846q8ccf184728d9e036@mail.gmail.com> <20091025021009.051de285.dcdowse@gmx.net>
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2009/10/25 Daniel C. Dowse <dcdowse@gmx.net> > On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:08:21 -0600 > Kelly Martin <kellymartin@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Greetings, here's a simple question for the FreeBSD gurus out there. I > > have several servers running cron scripts daily for me, and they all > > send me e-mail with their output. Regardless of which server it is, > > each of these e-mails have the From: address looking exactly the same. > > They all say they are from the "Cron Daemon". Fine, but I'd like to > > know more clearly which server the cron output is from. > > > > How can I change the From: address of these emails to "Myserver Cron > > Daemon" instead? I know cron runs as the user, so it's not immediately > > obvious to me how to change the From: field. Already the subject line > > says something like "Cron <root@Myserver> ..." but this doesn't stand > > out enough for my tired eyes. > > Why don`t you just create some filter rules in your mua ? > It may makes it clear for you if you create a folder for each host > and filter your msg on receiving ? > > e.g. > > Inbox > ... > CronDir > - Host 1 > - Host 2 > .... > > > Cheers > > Daniel > > -- > Just because I don`t care - Doesn`t mean I don`t understand ! > -- Homer J. Simpson > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The simplist way to do it is get you scripts to print out a to, from and subject line at the top of their output containing the information you want. eg To: your@mailbox.com From: scriptname@hostname.com Subject: scriptname, hostname other script output Then in the cron pipe the output into sendmail with the t flag eg 1 1 * * * somescript 2>&1 | /usr/sbin/sendmail -t you will then get the loverly named emails
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