On 07May2020 07:38, Robert Moskowitz <r...@htt-consult.com> wrote:
On 5/6/20 11:06 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Technically, no.  If you only want to deliver the messages locally, then you only need an MDA, not an MTA.  In fact, you could just create /usr/sbin/sendmail as a simple shell script:

#!/bin/sh

(cat; echo) >> $HOME/cron-output

Now I am getting some place.  But I would want it to go to

/var/spool/mail/$USER

Also there is already a /usr/sbin/sendmail on the system.  I am concerned that if I replace it with your example, a later update will remove it.

Indeed. Find out what package owns it. "rpm -qf /usr/sbin/sendmail" used to be the go, not sure of the matching dnf or yum incantation.

I looked at man crontab.5 and did not see a way to specify the mail command to run for the cron output.

There isn't. It uses the "system mail", use _is_ /usr/sbin/sendmail.

And finally, how could I test this after setting it up instead of waiting for the scheduled time?

A 1 minute cron job?

    * * * * * echo hello

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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