BSD periodic
can no longer satisfy my needs, so I switched to Vixie cron
last week, and also got started with system mail. (Of course periodic
can also mail results, but I never took advantage of that.) I'll list the things I've learned about mail thus far.
Warning: Here are things I've learnt on OS X 10.9. YMMV on other systems.
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It's easy to let
cron
email output to you. Add to your crontabMAILTO=torvalds,torvalds@klaava.helsinki.fi
As in the above example, you can either specify a local user, e.g.,
torvalds
, or an actual email address,torvalds@klaava.helsinki.fi
. Do separate email addresses with a comma. Do not add an extra space. Seeman 5 crontab
, though you might not find the tip above.