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

[Dave Stevens]

On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 22:24:24 +0000
Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 23, 2019 at 01:04:48PM -0800, Dave Stevens 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.  
> > 
> > thanks Ian, but why is cron trying to email me in the first place?  
> 
> That's what cron is defined to do when a cron job produces output.
> See "man 5 crontab" for how to configure this.
> 

Thanks, Colin W. I did man crontab but missed the cron 5 reference,
I'll read that.

And thanks too to Colin L., another option.

And Ian I do have mailx installed but no mail notification.

If mail="" works I can stop there I think.

Dave