How to change the mail address of cron messages

guarriman · 06-10-2005, 03:20 AM

Hi.

I've got a cron process asigned to 'john' Linux user. And every error message generated by the process is sent to 'john@myserver.com'.

Since the process runs every hour, John receives 5-6 mails per day with error messages.

How can I make 'cron' not to send the messages to 'john@myserver.com'? It's necessary that the cron process is asigned to 'john' Linux user.

Thank you very much. Regards.

trevelluk · 06-10-2005, 03:43 AM

You need to alter the MAILTO environment variable for the user concerned. From the crontab (5) manpage:

Quote:

In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron(8) will look at MAILTO if it has any reason to send mail as a result of running commands in ``this'' crontab. If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=""), no mail will be sent. Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of the crontab.

guarriman · 06-10-2005, 04:42 AM

Thank you very much.

I only browsed man crontab(1).