On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 01:39:45PM +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Per Jessen said the following on 10/23/2008 04:26 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
As it stands, cron can _only_ mail me. It will _always_ mail me. Most of the time I'm not interested. I only want to know if something is wrong. I must be missing the context here - cron can mail anyone in the world, just set MAILTO in the crontab.
You are misreadin the emphasis. It is on "mail" ratehr than "me".
As in the mail function is mandatory and implicit. I realise that the destination can be overridden.
Err...
It isn't "_always_". Most cron jobs don't generate output except in case of error and cron doesn't normally send empty mails. It only tells you when something is wrong.
It isn't "mandatory". It can be disabled with a line like MAILTO="" in a cron file. Or you can make cron use a completely different reporting tool with the -m option.
And of course individual lines in the crontab can cause it to do something completely different with job output by redirection etc
The only thing I need cron for is to remove the 0 size files created by the UnionFS to rotate logs and run updatedb. I do NOT need it generating spam.
Cheers, Dave
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