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Do I need to restart after changing crontab?
No you don’t have to restart cron , it will notice the changes to your crontab files (either /etc/crontab or a users crontab file).
How do you refresh a cron job?
Commands for RHEL/Fedora/CentOS/Scientific Linux user
- Start cron service. To start the cron service, use: /etc/init.d/crond start.
- Stop cron service. To stop the cron service, use: /etc/init.d/crond stop.
- Restart cron service. To restart the cron service, use: /etc/init.d/crond restart.
What is mailto crontab?
In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron will look at MAILTO if it has any reason to send mail as a result of running commands in “this” crontab. If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=””), no mail will be sent.
How do I view crontab emails?
On CentOS, my cron output gets “mailed” to /var/spool/mail. See it by running less $MAIL if you want to see cron output for the current user or less /var/spool/mail/root if you want to see cron output for commands running as root.
How does Cron look at mailto in Cron?
In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron will look at MAILTO if it has any reason to send mail as a result of running commands in “this” crontab. If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named.
What does mailto mean in crontab email settings?
If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=””), no mail will be sent. MAILTO=”” Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of the crontab.
How to send email from crontab to nixcraft?
If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is sent to the user so named. First open your crontab file: To send email to [email protected], enter: If MAILTO is defined but empty (MAILTO=””), no mail will be sent. Otherwise mail is sent to the owner of the crontab.
How is output mailed to the owner of crontab?
When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists. Where the spaces around the equal-sign (=) are optional, and any subsequent non-leading spaces in value will be part of the value assigned to name.