[kde-linux] kcron and mailto

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 09:03, John Andersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 February 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > One box runs a backup via kcron each day, but the user rarely checks his
> > email.  I want the messages to come to me, so that they are checked
> > regularly.  I am aliased to receive root's mail, but the messages are
> > sent to the user.  I've tried setting the MAILTO in kcronrc, but that
> > doesn't seem to work.  I've tried adding it to the backup script, but
> > that doesn't work either.  Someone advised me to add it to the person's
> > crontab, but I can't find anything other than kcronrc - maybe I'm looking
> > for the wrong thing. Any advice, please?
> >
> > Anne
>
> man crontab

Helpful, thanks.  I had looked at man:cron and never thought of looking for 
man:crontab.

While we're on the subject, can you please explain the logic behind the 
different entries - crontab1 and crontab5?  I'm sure the organisation is not 
random.

Anne
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