On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 08:26, Jon Haugsand wrote: > * Bret Hughes > > > > is the MAILTO variable set in the crontab? > > MAILTO is the receiver of mail, not the sender. It is not suprising > that mail is sent by the user root, as root is the owner of the cron > daemon. However, this does not mean that the cron job is _run_ by > user root. Check this by issuing the id command in your cron job: > > */1 * * * * /bin/id > > Here you can see what user your cron job is run > > (Bottom line: Nothing seems to be out of order for Yanick.) >
Of course you are right. I did not read thoroughly. Perhaps I am so used to root sending the mails that I assumed that the problem was that root was receiving them not simply sending them. Thanks for correcting my waste of bandwidth. Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
