Re: cron run as someone and mailto another

["nate" <debian-user@aphroland.org>]

Patrick Hsieh said:
> Hello list,
>
> I'd like to put some cron in /etc/cron.d/ and have them run as "www-data"
> but send the cron log mail to another user. Is it possible? Seems the
> cron syntax does not support this. Any work-around?


i've never really played with the email stuff on cron what I usually do
is make a script and pipe the output to mail

/usr/local/bin/blah.sh | mail me@localhost

and blah.sh has the stuff you wanna run in it ..

nate