Libre Things » crontab http://positon.org Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:01:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.1 Cron mail subject format http://positon.org/cron-mail-subject-format http://positon.org/cron-mail-subject-format#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:26:00 +0000 http://positon.org:81/?p=66 I looked for a way of changing mail format sent by the crontab.
I hoped for a syntax like MAILTO=

Answer: Impossible.

With Debian default cron program, it’s hard coded in cron :

In do_command.c source file:

fprintf(mail, "From: root (Cron Daemon)\n");
fprintf(mail, "To: %s\n", mailto);
fprintf(mail, "Subject: Cron <%s@%s> %s\n",
  usernm, first_word(hostname, "."),
  e->cmd);
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