I have some occasion to run some cron jobs as the user www-data. It would be nice to get any output with my regular cron output.
What I found is that the email was sent to www-data. postfix was dumping the email because it couldn't find procmail. Had it found procmail, I suspect it would have delivered it to /var/mail/www-data, or wherever procmail delivered it. I came up with two work-arounds. * /etc/aliases has an alias for user www (to root), but not for www-data. There is no user www. A quick edit, and run of newaliases allowed postfix to send www-data's mail to root. * Add an environment variable, 'MAILTO="root@<redacted>"' to the cron file that defines the relevant cron jobs. I think the first work-around is the more general, but the latter less intrusive. I should probably file a bug for whichever program set that particular alias. However, root@hawk:~# apt-file search etc/aliases xemacs21-support: /usr/share/xemacs-21.4.24/etc/aliases.ksh root@hawk:~# I suspected the package to be apache2, but that does not appear to be the case. That alias is present on boxen with no web server. Can anyone tell me which package, if any, provides /etc/aliases? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
