Re: [CentOS] use of MAILTO variable in crontab

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

On Wed Jul 13 15:03:40 EDT 2011, Michael Best mbest at pendragon.org  wrote:

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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@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"