Re: Hi Can I tell root mail (from Cron) to go Elseware?

From: Joseph Haig (jrmhaig_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 09/29/05

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To: fred.ogrady@gmail.com, "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    --- Fred OGrady <fred.ogrady@gmail.com> wrote:

    > Hi everyone.
    > I would like to send these messages to my gmail account instead. any
    > ideas?

    Yes. 'man cron' says the following:

      "When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the
      crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable
      in the crontab if such exists)."

    So at the start of your crontab you need a line with something like:

    MAILTO=<your address>

                    
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