Re: creating and logging a daily cron job
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:55:15PM +0100, michael wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:18 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 14.10.2008 at 13:22 +0100, michael wrote:
> > I think the standard output for jobs run out of cron.daily will
> > typically go to root's mailbox.
>
> Well, root seems not to have any mail:
> michael@ratty:~$ sudo su -
> Password:
> ratty:~# whoami
> root
> ratty:~# echo $MAIL
>
> ratty:~# ls /var/mail
> mail michael
> ratty:~#
root's mail should be redirected in the /etc/aliases file. Normally,
its redirected to the actual person designated to receive root's mail.
Doug.
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