Anacron - revisited

[Chris]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> Chris wrote:
>> I'm puzzled folks - when anacron runs it's jobs, are there supposed to
>> be email reports? Case in point - if I create a script to run in
>> /etc/cron.daily under say CentOS - There is an email sent to root when
>> that script is complete (example, if I echo the time of start and
>> completion).
> 
>> If not - is there something that can be turned on to allow the reports
>> to be sent to root (or any other login provided the alias files says so)
> 
>> If it does though - it seems mine is not working. So I could use a bit
>> of help in where it borked.
> 
>> Again, and as usual - TIA.
> 
>     As far as I know, this is one of the longest-running standards of
> Unix and Linux; I don't remember hearing of any choice, or mechanism to
> mute the cron jobs- it's just too important.
> 
>     Probably the question to ask is, where does root's mail go?  A lot
> of times, on a new install it goes to a local folder. Try:
> 
>     echo "My at real.address.com" > $HOME/.forward
> 
>     and then sudo to root and "echo "Test mail" | mail root" to see just
> where it goes.

Oddly enough - the app "mail" does not seems to exist on my install.


Best regards,
Chris

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