cron and mail: a stupid question (please don't kill me)

Julio Emanuel costaju@gmail.com
Mon Jul 21 17:12:00 GMT 2008


Hi all,

I've searched a bit already, and have been through the cron, ssmtp,
and crontab manpages. Still, there is something that I don't quite
understand: why on earth the cron job's output are put in e-mails??

I don't have any experience with the "mailing subsystem" of unix /
cygwin worlds, so I'm quite lost here.

All I want to do is:
a) have some jobs running unnatended and scheduled; (apparently done,
whith some simple tests)
b) have the output of this jobs LOGGED, preferably on syslog, with
some identification of the process who generated it; (don't have a
clue??!)

So, I began fiddling with ssmtp (which seemed to me like the most
simple and direct thing to use, since I don't want any real mail on my
host)... but all I achieved was some mails sent to our real mail relay
with some unknown addresses (it tried with some domain account which
doesn't have email).

SO... for the question: Is it possible to do a) and b), as layed out
above, without to mess with mails and such? How?

___________
Julio Costa

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