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From: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Who runs cron jobs?
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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I have a crontab file which has several jobs that mail me results of the
job -- not the mail from root saying "your cron job gave the following
output...", they are setup to send me mail.  Fine.

When I get this mail, the From line in the mail header has only the date,
no username.

I also noticed when crontab runs a command that rwall's a message, the
message appears on the console as "Message from ??@red...".

So my question:  who runs user cron jobs and why don't mail, rwall, and
probably others get it right?  Is there some way to fix this?

Thanks.

David Bernholdt			bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu
Quantum Theory Project		bernhold@ufpine.bitnet
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL  32611		904/392 6365