On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 10:20:57 +1000 Perry, David J wrote: > and in the .forward file I put my desktop email address like so: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Under Redhat 7.2 it worked like a charm. I then installed Redhat 8.0 > and promptly broke it. The output now goes to /var/spool/mail/david
Redhat doesn't appear to be respecting the .forward file. Somebody who knows Redhat better than I should be able to help figure out why. > How do I get the email sent to the correct email address? In the man > pages it says " cron mails to the owner of crontab - or the user named > in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists. " > I have tried changing the crontab entry to : > 3,13,23,33,43,53 * * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] > $HOME/bin/itrust_monitor.sh to no avail. In your setup, the MAILTO variable is only being defined as part of the command cron is running. It needs to be on a line of its own for cron to recognise it, as so: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3-53/10 * * * * $HOME/bin/itrust_monitor.sh 3-53/10 is shorthand for "between 3 and 53 minutes past the hour, every 10 minutes", a neater way of specifying what you've got. The crontab(5) manpage has full syntax details. It also has an example of using MAILTO. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
