[PLUG] Setting MAILTO for cron jobs

[Keith Morse]

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   Before the Big Change here, I'd get a daily e-mail message with the
> results of both /etc/cron.daily/dailyscript and /etc/cron.daily/1postfix.
> Now I don't.
> 
>   These are run by crond, not by the crontab for root or a user. I assume
> that the lack of mailed results is a missing MAILTO= statement somewhere,
> but I don't know where.
> 
>   Can someone please point me in the right direction?


My /etc/crontab has the entry "MAILTO=root" by default.  Both on RH 
7.2/7.3.