X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:11:51 +0100 From: "Julio Emanuel" To: "Cygwin Mailing list" Subject: cron and mail: a stupid question (please don't kill me) In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/