At 9:54 AM -0700 2/3/09, Doug McNutt wrote: >At 09:33 -0700 2/3/09, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> Mystery not completely solved.... > >man 5 crontab > >and check out the MAIL= option. You can specify a place to send >messages that might be generated by scheduled processes. It's part of >a wider ability to specify environment variables like PATH for cron >jobs. > >My web host running open BSD allows a complete email address - over >the internet - in the MAIL= line but the man page seems to limit it >to the name of a local user . I donno the details about how OS neXt >handles it. I also don't know what happens if you specify MAIL=NULL. >--
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