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On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 16:08:52 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:14:39 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> > Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm |
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> > not sure what I am going to be missing now. :-D Neil and Allan will so |
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> > impressed. LOL |
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> > OK. So, what will send me a message now? Do I need to tell it to send |
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> > me something, say from smart stuff, or does it just know to do it? |
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> You tell cron where to mail reports by setting MAILTO=you@wherever at the |
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> top of /etc/crontab. It will then mail you every time a cronjob produces |
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> output. |
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Or complete the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and revaliases with the info I have sent |
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you in this thread and set MAILTO=root in your /etc/crontab. |
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I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking outgoing port |
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25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the rest of us. If you use |
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my suggestion there shouldn't be a problem. |
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If your internet connection is down for some reason, you should get deadletter |
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files in /root/ with the output. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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