On Wednesday 31 January 2007 11:50, Mark Knoop wrote: > On 31/01/07, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sunday 28 January 2007 23:19, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > On 26Jan2007 19:25, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > | Unfortunately that has only partially solved the problem. I'm now > > > | getting logwatch messages, but no cron ones. There is a small backup > > > | job due to run twice daily, and I haven't seen any message for it > > > | yet. The job clearly ran this afternoon, as I can see files on the > > > | backup drive that were not created until this morning. > > > > > > Are they being delivered to the machine itself instead? I have noticed > > > that some jobs deliver to root@localhost or some icky variant like > > > that, and some do not. Annoying. > > > > Light has suddenly dawned! The messages are arriving in David's mailbox > > - which he hasn't been checking :-) Looking back, these cron messages > > are always sent to the owner of the job - logical. There are two ways > > that I can deal with this. I can use kmail filters to redirect the > > message I think, or I can run the job as root, in which case the message > > will come to me. > > Or tell cron to send the mail to you. As the first line in whosoever's > crontab: > Even better, thanks Anne
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