01-13-2009
cronjobs should be designed to create no output, an if they create no output no mail is created
your way with sending the output with a mail command in the job is the preferred way
other way:
generate a user cron
install sudo if not already installed
all cron jobs which should send to your email-address must be run from the new users crontab, running commands with sudo/sticky bit
specify a mail alias in /etc/sendmail/aliases for the new user
newuser:youremail@domain
#sendmail -bi
sendmail must run
#startsrc -s sendmail
perhaps there is an easier way
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send-reminders
SEND-REMINDERS(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SEND-REMINDERS(1)
NAME
Send-reminders - send email reminders for special occasions
SYNOPSIS
Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.
DESCRIPTION
Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email. Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries
and yearly events. Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand.
This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job. It mails the actual reminders out.
When run by the root user, it processes all of the spooled reminders. When run by a specific user, it only processes reminders set by that
user.
OPTIONS
--help
Displays basic usage message.
--simulate
Does not actually send any emails out.
--verbose
Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.
--version
Displays the version number.
FILES
~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf
AUTHOR
Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>
SEE ALSO
email-reminder-editor, collect-reminders
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier
Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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perl v5.14.2 2012-05-28 SEND-REMINDERS(1)