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Old 09-15-2010
Error Crontab - Email notifications by alternate user

Hi,

I have a crontab which sents email to a group in a certain interval. The email contains my user id in 'from' field of email - because my user crontab.

I don't have root access for that AIX 5.3 host - and should have to change 'from' field to either 'root' or any other common names.

Do i need to ask our admin to include the job in 'root' crontab. ? Is that only possible way to do so. ?

Could you please write me your suggestions/ alternate ways, if any.

Thanks, Vasu.
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Old 09-15-2010
You need to ask admin.
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Old 09-16-2010
aside from the admin altering the sendmail configuration for you a simple way to accomplish this is to execute the sendmail command directly from the cron job and set the headers manually. mail/mailx will not work.
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Old 09-16-2010
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Originally Posted by frank_rizzo
aside from the admin altering the sendmail configuration for you a simple way to accomplish this is to execute the sendmail command directly from the cron job and set the headers manually. mail/mailx will not work.
Yes, it's easy if you are trusted users (normally root, deamon and uucp). You need to ask admin!!!!!

Last edited by john1212; 09-16-2010 at 01:52 PM..
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Old 09-16-2010
Ok, Very good. Thanks for your reply.
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