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email from cron

bill_allen — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:30:38 GMT

I have a HP-UX server running 11.11. A previous administrator had emails from cron going to his email address. I have fixed /etc/mail/aliases and ran newaliases, but root cron job outputs are still going to the old admins account. Where else do I need to look to see why this is happening. I need to change it so that root cron outputs are emailed to a different email account. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: email from cron

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:34:47 GMT

Hi,

Check the /etc/aliases file.

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: email from cron

Pete Randall — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:35:02 GMT

Check the cron job itself to see if the addressee is explicitly stated within it.

Pete

Re: email from cron

Jeff Schussele — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:37:48 GMT

Hi Bill,

Check to see if the cron job itself has a specific email address in it.
Also make sure root's home directory doesn't have a .forward file in it that's routing the mail.

Rgds,
Jeff

Re: email from cron

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 16 May 2006 10:39:14 GMT

Shalom,

crontab -l can have job output routed to mailx -s "subject" email address

As already noted the same logic or other send methodology can be in the jorbs themselves.

Your choice of your email address as an ITRC ID is likely to attract spam. I recommend you change it.

SEP

Re: email from cron

bill_allen — Sat, 20 May 2006 13:34:19 GMT

Thanks for the help guys. What had happened is that I had done all the things you all suggested, but still a problem. What I did not mention in my querry was that two system configured with NIS were involved. All the changes were applied to one system, but the changes did not get applied to all the systems involved until I did a /var/yp/ypmake, the output of which indicated that the aliases changes are also pushed to the other systems in this way. I did not realize that. Anyway, the deed is done, problem solved.