On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:01 PM, ashwin kesavan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2)Another thing, I started the crontab file with MAILTO="[email protected]" >> but no mail came to that address. > > That is not the way to send mail . It works only on GUI when some one > clicks on link their default mail client will be used to open the GUI. > How can a crontab do that when it is working in the background. Please > read on the mail command . It will tell you how to send mail through > command line. > The MAILTO is a valid declarative in the crontab files. You need to have a mail server setup. postfix for localhost smtp will do for starters. See http://www.manpagez.com/man/5/crontab/ -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
