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Re: [tlug] Odd cron/crontab result.



On 9/15/06, Walter Hansen <gandalf@example.com> wrote:

Just in case this helps. I generally have cron invoked script produce
output and make sure the root email is sent to my main inbox. This
produces handy logs and such. If your running as a user, I'm not sure
where the output goes, you'd have to check the man.

Apparently you can set where cron will send it's mail using the
MAILTO="example@example.com" variable in the crontab file.

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/crontab.5.html

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