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Date:      Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:56:49 -0700
From:      David King <dking@ketralnis.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Subject:   Re: e-mail from cron
Message-ID:  <32E582EE-9F5C-4426-8DAB-AB109E838C48@ketralnis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060823102841.05d85d88.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
References:  <012e01c6c6bd$29966ac0$d51a2cd0@lisac> <20060823102841.05d85d88.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>

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>> to this:
>>
>> # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance.
>> 1       3       *       *       *       root    periodic daily   
>> 2>&1 | sendmail service@jellico.com
> [...]
> However, you might find it easier to just add the following line to  
> the
> top of the crontab:
> MAILTO=service@jellico.com
> Which will cause all mail generated by the jobs in that file to be  
> sent
> to the provided address.

Is that true? MAILTO should change the destination of the output of  
cron jobs, but periodic handles its own output



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