Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017 14:26:49 +0000 From: Chad Cordero ccordero@csusb.edu
From: CentOS centos-bounces@centos.org on behalf of Richard Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017 at 6:54 AM
The "mailto" value is crontab file specific, so setting it in /etc/crontab would only effect commands run from there (a file that isn't used much any longer). As the /etc/cron.daily, etc. jobs are now run from /etc/anacrontab you'd need to adjust the "mailto" in that file for things run that way. If run from a user-level crontab the "mailto" needs to be in that user's crontab file. [cron.hourly is run out of /etc/cron.d/0hourly, not anacrontab, and has its own "mailto".]
Well, I feel silly.ﾠ There are three places MAILTO can affect crond: /etc/crontab, /etc/crond.d/0hourly, and /etc/anacrontab.ﾠ Once I set this in these 3 files, I started getting mail from crond.ﾠ Thank you all for your help.
As I noted, the "mailto" is crontab specific (see: man -s5 crontab), so where you need to change that value depends on the crontab the job is invoked from. I believe that the /etc/crontab file is mostly obsolete at this point, so I don't think changing the "mailto" there has any real effect (except for jobs specifically put in there).
Note, some (generally) cron-invoked programs, e.g., logwatch, have their own "mailto" settings, which will get used rather than what is set in the crontab. You'll need to make script-specific adjustments for these.
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