Cron emails

[Cameron Simpson]

On 21Nov2014 19:22, Mike Chambers <mike at mtchambers.com> wrote:
>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?

Cron doesn't sent email if the job output is empty. Is a normal run empty?
If so, the simple thing is the generate a little text from the jobs.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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