Cron emails

[Jack Craig]

 5 */4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarterly | mailx -s "test"


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hth,jackc...


On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Mike Chambers <mike at mtchambers.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a couple of cron jobs setup in my /etc/cron.d/ dir and they seem
> to be checked and run as suppose to, according to /var/log/cron.
> Basically the 2 jobs point to a couple of dir's that run a few scripts
> every so few hours and mirror a few things from Fedora, rpmfusion, etc.
>
> But I would like to get the email results of those 2 jobs after they
> run, whether they download anything or not, but right now I don't get
> anything.
>
> Below is a copy of one of the cron jobs, but they are all the same.
>
> [root at scooby log]# more /etc/cron.d/0quarterly
> # Run the quarterly jobs
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> 5 */4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.quarterly
>
> As can see above, mailto=root is set, and I do get root emails (I
> tested) to the alias I have set it for, but not the cron jobs.
>
> So how else can I get it to email me no matter what the result is?
>
> --
> Mike Chambers
> Madisonville, KY
>
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