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How do you change CRON to send mail to root@localhost?

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I believe that anything specified in the sendmail.cw file will be resolved as localhost.

-bash-3.00$ pwd
/etc/mail

-bash-3.00$ cat sendmail.cw
localhost
mybox
mybox.me.com

also, if your not running a sendmail deamon, make sure to add the following entry to root's cron to perform sendmail retries if needed.

# crontab -l | grep sendmail
50 * * * * /usr/sbin/sendmail -q

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