cron emails

[CodePT]

Hi,

is it possible to receive e-mails from the jobs present in /etc/crontab?

I saw some had output redirection but others didn't and I haven't recevied any mail.

On a normal system the e-mails get sent to root or whatever the MAILTO variable holds.

I don't know if I'm supposed to receive e-mails regarding these jobs.

I've configured the e-mail settings and sent a test e-mail successfully.

Cheers,

 

[b0bje]

I added a script to crontab through the GUI and noticed in /etc/crontab it auto appended ">/dev/null 2>&1".
So any and all output send to STDOUT or STDERROR will be lost.

If you want certain output to be mailed, I believe you have to adjust the script/job to send mail yourself.