On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 18:25, Paul Agner wrote:
Thanks Patrick, but I have already edited all those files to no avail... it just keeps mailing root!
this is one of the hardest distros I have ever tried to launch a server on! NOthing works!
Nothing works? Did you even try the cron man page?
From man 5 crontab...
In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron(8) will look at MAILTO if it has any reason to send mail as a result of running commands in ‘‘this'' crontab. If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=""), no mail will be sent. Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of the crontab. This option is useful if you decide on /bin/mail instead of /usr/lib/sendmail as your mailer when you install cron -- /bin/mail doesn't do aliasing, and UUCP usually doesn't read its mail. And please stop top posting. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*