On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:50, Mark Knoop wrote:
On 31/01/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sunday 28 January 2007 23:19, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> > On 26Jan2007 19:25, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> > | Unfortunately that has only partially solved the problem. I'm now
> > | getting logwatch messages, but no cron ones. There is a small backup
> > | job due to run twice daily, and I haven't seen any message for it
> > | yet. The job clearly ran this afternoon, as I can see files on the
> > | backup drive that were not created until this morning.
> >
> > Are they being delivered to the machine itself instead? I have noticed
> > that some jobs deliver to root@localhost or some icky variant like
> > that, and some do not. Annoying.
>
> Light has suddenly dawned! The messages are arriving in David's mailbox
> - which he hasn't been checking :-) Looking back, these cron messages
> are always sent to the owner of the job - logical. There are two ways
> that I can deal with this. I can use kmail filters to redirect the
> message I think, or I can run the job as root, in which case the message
> will come to me.
Or tell cron to send the mail to you. As the first line in whosoever's
crontab:
Even better, thanks
Anne