> Date: Thursday, July 20, 2017 14:26:49 +0000 > From: Chad Cordero <ccordero at csusb.edu> > >> From: CentOS <centos-bounces at 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. [please don't top post. turning off disclaimers that have no relevance on list postings is also nice.]