[CentOS] use of MAILTO variable in crontab

James B. Byrne byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca
Wed Jul 13 19:10:07 UTC 2011


On Wed Jul 13 15:03:40 EDT 2011, Michael Best mbest at pendragon.org
 wrote:
> Like this:
>
> MAILTO=testaddr at harte-lyne.ca
> 30 2 * * * echo "this should be mailed"

That sets MAILTO for the entire crontab does it not?  I want to set
MAILTO differently for specific crontab entries.  Is that possible? 
How is it done?  Or do I have to pipe stuff to /usr/bin/mail
explicitly?



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