On Thu, 01 Jun 2000, Antony Stace wrote about, Slectively getting mail sent when a
cronjob is run.:
> Hi Folks
>
> Can I selectively decide which cron jobs are to send me a notification
> message. The only option I can see is to set the MAILTO variable. If
> it is set then the user under which the cron job was run is sent a mail,
> otherwise no mail is sent. I want to get mail sent for some cron jobs
> but not others. Is there any way to do this?
>
> Any help appreciated.
Your answer is clearly stated in 'man crontab'
The command portion of the line is run with /bin/sh -c
<command> and may therefore contain any valid bourne shell
command. A common practice is to run your command with
exec to keep the process table uncluttered. It is also
common to redirect output to a log file. If you do not,
and the command generates output on stdout or stderr, the
result will be mailed to the user in question. If you use
this mechanism for special users, such as UUCP, you may
want to create an alias for the user to direct the mail to
someone else, such as root or postmaster.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
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