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" -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532