by I would really like to get more control over the way that
cron formats mail message headers. Yes, I know that I can use
pipes with each crontab entry. But I don't want to do
this anymore. It's to time-consuming to maintain.
I want to build a better cron.
I want to explicitly and easily control the To:, Subject: and
From: headers globally, for all cron entries, without using
pipes, wrapper scripts or other odd tricks.
On many of the Solaris machines where I work,
cron doesn't seem to insert a From: header at all.
This is a problem, because the mail relays here
like to insert their own From: header when there is
no existing From: header, and then all the cron messages
appear to come from the mail hub.
I am planning to patch vixie cron to use on BSD systems.
But what can I do on Solaris? Can I use vixie cron
on Solaris? Has anyone else ever attempted to do this before?
Is cron more configurable than I think, and am I
missing something?
I'd be grateful for any comments.
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