[CentOS] Cron sending to root after changing MAILTO

Wed Jul 19 21:42:00 UTC 2017
Chad Cordero <ccordero at csusb.edu>

I have “root: ecssupport at csusb.edu” in my /etc/aliases file already.

 


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From: CentOS <centos-bounces at centos.org> on behalf of Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>
Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 at 2:25 PM
To: "centos at centos.org" <centos at centos.org>
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cron sending to root after changing MAILTO

 

Am 19.07.2017 um 22:46 schrieb Chad Cordero:

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.

 

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Best is to define a mail alias for the root user. That way you have it 

defined at a single place for all occurances of mail destined to root.

 

To do so edit /etc/aliases at the very bottom where you find a 

pre-defined but commented setting:

 

# Person who should get root's mail

#root:          marc

 

Change it to

 

root:                       ecssupport at csusb.edu

 

and run `newaliases' after that change. It is always a good idea to 

verify that the database file, which is the one really used, has been 

changed and carries a new time flag.

 

Alexander

 

 

Chad Cordero

Information Technology Consultant

Enterprise & Cloud Services

Information Technology Services

California State University, San Bernardino

5500 University Pkwy

San Bernardino, CA 92407-2393

Main Line: 909/537-7677

Direct Line: 909/537-7281

Fax: 909/537-7141

http://support.csusb.edu/

 

 

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