Add/Modify Cron Jobs

Update Cron to mail to a particular user

crontab -e

Adding Path to Cron

Cron runs with a very limited shell. You may find that you need to set the path for certain things to work. You can add this to the beginning of the crontab.

crontab -e

PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

MailTo

If you want to get cronjob emails, set MAILTO in the crontab:

crontab -e

MAILTO="xxx@yahoo.com"

If you don't want to receive any emails from cron, set the MAILTO=""

MAILTO=""

If you are using Ssmpt with cron, you will also need to replace the symlink for sendmail with a script.

rm /usr/sbin/sendmail

vi /usr/sbin/sendmail

#!/bin/sh
ARGS=$@
sed -r -e 's/^From: root \(Cron Daemon\)\s*$/From: Cron Daemon <xxx@yahoo.com>/' | /usr/sbin/ssmtp $@

chmod +x /usr/sbin/sendmail

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