Re: e-mail from cron
Hi All, Thanks for all of your help. Creating /etc/periodic.conf with the appropriate data did the trick. I appreciate it. Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: e-mail from cron
In response to David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> to this: > >> > >> # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. > >> 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily > >> 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [...] > > However, you might find it easier to just add the following line to > > the > > top of the crontab: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Which will cause all mail generated by the jobs in that file to be > > sent > > to the provided address. > > Is that true? MAILTO should change the destination of the output of > cron jobs, but periodic handles its own output You're correct. That's my mistake and I apologize for the misinformation. Simply put, periodic does not generate any output to either stdout or stderr. It has its own system for determining who to mail to. See /etc/defaults/periodic.conf or appropriate man pages for the details. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: e-mail from cron
to this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] However, you might find it easier to just add the following line to the top of the crontab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which will cause all mail generated by the jobs in that file to be sent to the provided address. Is that true? MAILTO should change the destination of the output of cron jobs, but periodic handles its own output ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: e-mail from cron
30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] but all I get is a blank email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] also.. using 2>&1 doesn't seem appropriate, afaik you would use that in crontab if you don't want to get emails via cron You would use "2>&1" in conjunction with ">/dev/null" if you didn't want to get emails from cron, sure. But if you don't redirect stderr, then stderr doesn't end up in the mail. That is, if "periodic monthly" outputs stdout and stderr, and you only redirect (with "|") stdout, then you don't get the stderr. "2>&1" says, "send output from file-descriptor 2 (stderr) to file- descriptor 1 (stdout)". That way the redirection with the pipe contains both stdout and stderr. As far as redirecting the periodic output to a different user, set "daily_output" in /etc/periodic.conf. See /etc/defaults/periodic.conf for an example. You'd of course have to do the same for weekly and monthly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: e-mail from cron
In response to "Lisa Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > to this: > > # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. > 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 2>&1 | > sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a bad idea, mainly because (as you already know) it doesn't work :) If you want to use that syntax above, use mail(1) instead of sendmail. However, you might find it easier to just add the following line to the top of the crontab: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which will cause all mail generated by the jobs in that file to be sent to the provided address. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: e-mail from cron
In the last episode (Aug 23), Lisa Casey said: > This ought to be a fairly simple question, but I've googled and can't > really find the answer. > > I'ld like to have the reports from the system cron jobs (daily run > output, security run output, weekly run output and monthly run > output) sent to an e-mail address other than root, but I want all the > "postmaster" stuff (mailer-daemon emails, etc.) to continue going to > root (so I don't particularly want to just forward root's mail > somewhere using the aliases file). The periodic scripts generate their own emails, so setting MAILTO= in crontab (or manually piping the output to sendmail as you did) won't do anything. They default to the "root" email address, but you can change it by editing /etc/periodic.conf and adding lines like daily_output="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" . Use /etc/defaults/periodic.conf as a references. This feature is documented in the periodic(8) manpage, but all the examples log to files, so it's easy to miss that fact that you can also use email addresses. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: e-mail from cron
Lisa Casey wrote: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] # If these were standard cronjobs sending output to stdout then this would work (though I would use e.g. "mail -s 'my subject'" not sendmail - latter only really useful when you want to generate the headers yourself). However, IIRC, periodic jobs are handled differently. Extract from man periodic.conf: dir_output (path or list) What to do with the output of the scripts executed from the directory dir. If this variable is set to an absolute path name, output is logged to that file, otherwise it is taken as one or more space separated email addresses and mailed to those users. If this variable is not set or is empty, output is sent to standard output. e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] same for weekly, monthly. Or unset all of them and use the crontab email method you used above. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: e-mail from cron
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:05:14 -0400 "Lisa Casey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly 2>&1 > | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > # > > but all I get is a blank email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] does it work if you use the command "mail" instead ? see : man mail also.. using 2>&1 doesn't seem appropriate, afaik you would use that in crontab if you don't want to get emails via cron -- grtjs, albi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
e-mail from cron
Hi, This ought to be a fairly simple question, but I've googled and can't really find the answer. I'ld like to have the reports from the system cron jobs (daily run output, security run output, weekly run output and monthly run output) sent to an e-mail address other than root, but I want all the "postmaster" stuff (mailer-daemon emails, etc.) to continue going to root (so I don't particularly want to just forward root's mail somewhere using the aliases file). In /etc/crontab, I changed this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly # to this: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly 2>&1 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] # but all I get is a blank email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the best way to accomplish this? Thanks, Lisa Casey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
