At 02:35 PM 9/3/2011, Robert Bonomi wrote: >Is 'atrun' actually sending the mails or is 'cron' doing it? 'atrun' is >invoked by 'cron', from a specification in the system crontab file.
/usr/src/libexec/atrun/atrun.c shows an invocation of sendmail(8) directly from atrun(8). >Cron emails *whenever* a cron-scheduled job produces stdout or stderr >output. atrun intentionally doesn't produce output unless it encounters an error; see the same source file. >You could, in theory, have the crontab line _append_ output to a filename >based on a timestamp, however, that intermixes output from all users. One way to avoid problems would be to create a file name from a timestamp and a pid. The key thing, though, is to avoid mailing on machines that don't have mail. --Brett _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
