how to change daily cron emails to go to user account instead of root

[Matthew Seaman]

On 2015/08/27 13:53, Alexander Moisseev wrote:
> On 27.08.2015 15:41, Ernie Luzar wrote:
>> The part that is not clear is where do I place this MAILTO environment
>> variable?
> 
> Have you seen the EXAMPLE CRON FILE section of the man 5 crontab?
> 
> EXAMPLE CRON FILE
>      # use /bin/sh to run commands, overriding the default set by cron
>      SHELL=/bin/sh
>      # mail any output to `paul', no matter whose crontab this is
>      MAILTO=paul
>      #
>      # run five minutes after midnight, every day
>      5 0 * * *       $HOME/bin/daily.job >> $HOME/tmp/out 2>&1

That's how in general, you control where cron sends the stdout or stderr
from any commands it runs.  However, it doesn't answer the OP's specific
question about periodic scripts -- those handle e-mailing their results
out themselves, which is controlled by setting the
{daily,weekly,monthly}_output variable in periodic.conf

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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