[CentOS] use of MAILTO variable in crontab

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:10 PM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca> wrote:
>
> 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?
>



Easy:


MAILTO="root"
30 2 * * * echo "this should be mailed to root"
MAILTO="james at harte.x.x"
30 4 * * * echo "this should be mailed to James"
MAILTO="bob"
30 5 * * * echo "this should be mailed to Bob"
MAILTO=""
30 6 * * * echo "this should be mailed to no-one"


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