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I have this problem, I only want to be emailed upon failure. However, the crontab of the account is shared by several different jobs run by different people, a

I have this problem, I only want to be emailed upon failure. However, the crontab of the account is shared by several different jobs run by different people, and I don't have control over that. Perhaps I could set the email in the crontab line? * * * * * MAILTO=me@example.com blahscript.sh

Dobbs 14y ago
blahscript.sh | mail -s "Subject" me@example.com
- ralph 14y ago
  That always sends an email, even if the body is empty.
- nodata 14y ago
  mail -E
asjo 14y ago
You can set MAILTO by itself between the job lines in the crontab; e.g.: MAILTO=user1@example.com * */10 * * * script1 5 * * * * script2 MAILTO=user2@example.com * * * * * script3 Any output from script1 and 2 will be sent to user1 and any from script3 to user2.
- Nick_C 14y ago
  Not all cron daemons. Vixie cron can do this, but Dillon's cron, which is a lightweight cron daemon with extra features, can't.
  - asjo 14y ago
    Thanks for the clarification.