Not really, Guilherme. ANY output from any command executed under cron WILL be outputed to the mail set on MAILTO variable.
On 1/22/08, Guilherme Amadio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:19:15AM -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > I edit my crontab like sudo crontab -u mykhyggz -e > > > > At the top, is MAILTO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > My user belongs to cron group: groups > > wheel cron users mykhyggz > > > > Cron is running: top bn1|grep cron > > 5068 root 18 0 3072 692 552 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 cron > > > > 15 08 * * * echo hello world > > > > should have sent me an email with 'hello world' in the body at 8:15, or > > so I believe, but didn't. > > > > What else can I check? > > > I believe that the MAILTO variable mails output only when there are > errors, so try putting 'ls /idontexist' as a command and see if you > get anything. You may have to mail normal output by hand. > > Cheers, > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
