Subject: Re: Stop cron from mailing to root
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Randy Beaudreault <maccult@pacbell.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/01/2002 10:21:36
>On Thursday 31 October 2002 22:54, Carlo Smith wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  Cron sends emails to confirm it performed tasks, how can I select what
>>  messages to mail and what not?
>
>Before each line make a decision as to who to mail the output of the line to,
>and then set:
>
>MAILTO="username"
>
>... for a user, or:
>
>MAILTO=""
>
>... to drop it on the floor.

These are put on a line before each executed line like this:
MAILTO="username"
41      1       *       *       *       ntpdate time.apple.com
-- 
Randy

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