[CentOS] Cron sending to root after changing MAILTO

Wed Jul 19 20:46:21 UTC 2017
Chad Cordero <ccordero at csusb.edu>

I am running CentOS 7 on an outbound gateway server running Postfix.  I have a couple of cron jobs I was expecting to see in my email that never showed up.  It turns out that they were delivered to root, which is restricted on our exchange server, instead of the address I defined.  Please help.

 

# cat /etc/crontab 

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=ecssupport at csusb.edu

 

# For details see man 4 crontabs

 

# Example of job definition:

# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)

# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)

# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)

# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...

# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat

# |  |  |  |  |

# *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed

 

# cat /etc/sysconfig/crond 

# Settings for the CRON daemon.

# CRONDARGS= :  any extra command-line startup arguments for crond

CRONDARGS=

 

 


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