was: Re: how to autorun script at startup as administrator? but now a new problem

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 at 21:06, Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:07:01 +0900
> マスターズ・イアン <ian at ncsa.jp> wrote:
>
> > Cron wants to write the dmesg output to a mail and send it to you. If
> > you had even mailx on your system, it would send you the output of
> > dmesg , as it did to me.
> >
> > ian
>
> thanks Ian, but why is cron trying to email me in the first place?

Because that is the default method it uses to inform you about how
things went.  To disable it put at the top of the relevant crontab
MAILTO=""
At least that is what I have in my notes, but it is some time since I
did that so things may have moved on since then.

Colin