Topic: Cron notification setup question.....

[Mjohnson]

I appologize in advance for this question...

How do I change the mail notification address for the various Cron jobs?  Currently it is set to the default value of "root".  I want to send the notifications to a remote address, "admin@mydomain.com"  The root mail account is a dead end on my server, however, I am interested in receiving the notifications.

Thanks in advance.

MJ

[cydonia]

Click on the email link in server-manager, and change the administrative notices email to whatever you want.

I believe this should be what you're after.

[Mjohnson]

No, that does not do the trick...  

What I was looking at in the crontab file (/etc/crontab) is the setting Mail=root.  I believe this requires a template change to alter.  I am just not sure how to go about that.

[cydonia]

This is untested by me, but I would do something like:

Create a file called "crontab" at:

/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc

Create the directory "etc" if it doesn't already exist.

Now add the line:

MAILTO=whatever@domain.com


Then go back out to the console and type:

/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/crontab


Now, check the actual file at /etc/crontab and see how it looks.  I'm hope this will overwrite the original "MAILTO" line and not just add another one.


Let me know how this goes.

Tristan

[bobk]

This is untested by me, but I would do something like:

Create a file called "crontab" at:

/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc

Create the directory "etc" if it doesn't already exist.

Now add the line:

MAILTO=whatever@domain.com
...

Tristan

The above will not work.

What you need to do is copy
etc/e-smith/templates/etc/crontab/00setup
to
etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/crontab/00setup

then - edit the file 00setup in the templates-custom directory

then do - sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/crontab

I do not know if this will accomplish what you want but it is the correct way to change the setting for 'MAILTO' in the etc/crontab file.

[cydonia]

ahh. thanks for showing us the proper way to do it bob:)

I completely forgot about fragments...  Time to go study the docs regarding templating:)

EDIT: its so clear to me now...