dsg@mbunix.mitre.org (Goldberg) (11/21/90)
I maintain several Unix based systems, including a MIPS RS2030. One
thing that makes life alot easier for me is to forward mail from root
on all the remote machines to a single account. That way I don't have
to remember log in to thirty odd machines every day to make sure
everything is OK (thiry odd xload's is sufficient :-). Anyway, the
problem is on the RS2030. Cron uses /bin/mail rather than
/usr/ucb/mail to mail the stdout and stderr of cron jobs. No problem:
I made symbolic link from /usr/ucb to /ucb and edited a copy of the
cron binary to use /ucb/mail. This works fine for root's crontab.
The problem is the periodic stuff. That seems to be copied directly
to /usr/mail/root. I don't see where /bin/mail is entering into it.
Is there any way to get periodic stuff forwarded? Or should I just
blow it away, and move it into root's crontab file.
Thanks for any help
--
Dave Goldberg UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator
The Mitre Corporation MS B020 Bedford, MA 01730 617-271-2460
Domain: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: {your neighborhood}!linus!mbunix!dsg lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe) (11/21/90)
dsg@mbunix.mitre.org (Goldberg) writes:
-I maintain several Unix based systems, including a MIPS RS2030. One
-thing that makes life alot easier for me is to forward mail from root
-on all the remote machines to a single account. That way I don't have
-to remember log in to thirty odd machines every day to make sure
-everything is OK (thiry odd xload's is sufficient :-). Anyway, the
-problem is on the RS2030. Cron uses /bin/mail rather than
-/usr/ucb/mail to mail the stdout and stderr of cron jobs. No problem:
-I made symbolic link from /usr/ucb to /ucb and edited a copy of the
-cron binary to use /ucb/mail. This works fine for root's crontab.
-The problem is the periodic stuff. That seems to be copied directly
-to /usr/mail/root. I don't see where /bin/mail is entering into it.
-Is there any way to get periodic stuff forwarded? Or should I just
-blow it away, and move it into root's crontab file.
I don't think this much work is necessary. As I recall, getting this
to act the way you want should merely require touching /usr/lib/sendmail.ok
into existence and creating an appropriate .forward file for root.
That's all I recall doing and it works fine for me. (Some of this
appeared somewhere in the OS release notes.)
-Thanks for any help
-Dave Goldberg UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator
-The Mitre Corporation MS B020 Bedford, MA 01730 617-271-2460
-Domain: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: {your neighborhood}!linus!mbunix!dsg
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Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu
University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnetdsg@mbunix.mitre.org (Goldberg) (11/27/90)
In article <lgy.659136365@newton> lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe) writes: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org (Dummy who forgot to RTFM :-) writes: -I maintain several Unix based systems, including a MIPS RS2030. One -thing that makes life alot easier for me is to forward mail from root -on all the remote machines to a single account. That way I don't have -to remember log in to thirty odd machines every day to make sure -everything is OK (thiry odd xload's is sufficient :-). Anyway, the -problem is on the RS2030. Cron uses /bin/mail rather than -/usr/ucb/mail to mail the stdout and stderr of cron jobs. No problem: -I made symbolic link from /usr/ucb to /ucb and edited a copy of the -cron binary to use /ucb/mail. This works fine for root's crontab. -The problem is the periodic stuff. That seems to be copied directly -to /usr/mail/root. I don't see where /bin/mail is entering into it. -Is there any way to get periodic stuff forwarded? Or should I just -blow it away, and move it into root's crontab file. I don't think this much work is necessary. As I recall, getting this to act the way you want should merely require touching /usr/lib/sendmail.ok into existence and creating an appropriate .forward file for root. That's all I recall doing and it works fine for me. (Some of this appeared somewhere in the OS release notes.) Damn, I'd forgotten about that. I had it working under 4.10 and forgotten how. Sendmail.ok is the answer. It works like a champ. Thanks, -- Dave Goldberg UNIX Systems Programmer/Administrator The Mitre Corporation MS B020 Bedford, MA 01730 617-271-2460 Domain: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: {your neighborhood}!linus!mbunix!dsg