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Re: cron and MAILTO



On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 03:34:27PM GMT, T o n g wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:09:19 +0000, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> 
> > % man 5 crontab
> 
> I guess I assumed someone would be thoughtful enough to find out in OP 
> that I said I know it works for crontab.

File in /etc/cron.d ARE crontabs and the man page concerns them,
/etc/crontab and user crontabs.

> > It would've been quicker if you had tested it yourself or RTFM.
> 
> Who says I didn't test myself? 

Why did you ask the question below then?
Clearly you hadn't RTFM.
Had you done so, you wouldn't have send the email to the list.

> BTW, 
> 
> >> Now, if I put 'MAILTO=user3' at the top of the file, what will happen?
> 
> JFTA, cron messages all went to user3.

Exactly as the manual, which I quoted, said it would.

Regards,
-- 
Raf


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