Changing who gets email from cron entries?

[Bill Tangren]

Bill Matthews wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have some entries in /etc/cron.daily, like logwatch, and some custom
> simple scripts.
> 
> Currently they email their output to root. And root is an alias for a
> mailing list (in /etc/aliases)
> 
> However, I'd like to be able to control which cron jobs email where. For
> example, lets say I want script1 to send e-mail to bob at company.com and
> logwatch to email security at company.com.
> 
> And then finally I would leave root aliased to operations at company.com, but
> script1 and logwatch would no longer go there.
> 
> I know with the older style of crontab I could just use a redirect. But I
> wasn't sure how to do it with /etc/cron.whatever entries.
> 
> Thanks --BIll

Why not use crontab? It would certainly be the easiest solution.


Bill