Cron mystery

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Mar 30 15:45:47 UTC 2006


Steven J Lamb wrote:
> I have been searching and greping my entire server for a couple of days
> now to figure this one out so bear with me. 
> 
> 
> As many of you probably do I recive some cron messages from either
> failed cron tasks or crons that have some output in them. Not all that
> annoying for me as I can easily sort these messages and move on with my
> normal order of buisness. However I noticed while reading through some
> of my crons that the sender of these messages was supposed the email
> address for the old systems admin. I was under the inpression that the
> sender of all crons was root at localhost. I have however been unable to
> find where this setting is changed. And during abunch of mans or googles
> have been unable to find how one configures this. Any ideas out there on
> what this is all about.

Sample headers would be useful.

How about /etc/mail/genericstable ?

Paul.




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