Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:45:48 -0600 From: Kelly Martin <kellymartin@gmail.com> To: krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Daniel C. Dowse" <dcdowse@gmx.net> Subject: Re: changing cron's From: address in emails Message-ID: <1338880b0910271145m73dbb11bjada79a76ccea35e2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d36406630910251019g74ab55cclc4e829ec35b3cd35@mail.gmail.com> References: <1338880b0910240008h5d5e7846q8ccf184728d9e036@mail.gmail.com> <20091025021009.051de285.dcdowse@gmx.net> <d36406630910251019g74ab55cclc4e829ec35b3cd35@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:19 AM, krad <kraduk@googlemail.com> wrote: > > >> 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. > > 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 That is very cool, thank-you! It works beautifully. And as a bonus I've learned something new about how to e-mail the output from my scripts, which can be useful for all sorts of things. Kelly
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