cron output

[vlz]

Hi,
I get emails from my cron job.
They come from the user: daemon (From: daemon)
I'd like to have my original username in From field
as I have in HP-UX & Solaris.
Is it possible?
Thanks in advance
Vadim

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi,

How are you actually doing the mailing ?

 

[vlz]

For example I run this cron entry:
15 15 * * * print "message from cron"

I receive the cron output,i.e.
"message from cron" string as email from user: daemon

The question: is it possible to get this email from
my own user and not daemon?

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi ,

This behaviour is normal , becuase you are not specifying the user or mail command to send a mail , just a print it does not know who is sending the mail just a print statement so the cron daemon just sends a mail locally as daemon.

You can specify the mailx command

mailx -s "test message" username

username being the user you want to send the mail to

 

[Yegolev]

or `su - userid -c "print msg"` but the quoting can get messy. put msg in a ksh script, perhaps, and run that from cron.

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