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The MAILTO environment variable in cron allows you to specify an email address to receive output from your cron job

root@rpi-samba-01:~# crontab -e
…
MAILTO=josef.schuster@dpsolution.de
# * * * * * echo „eMail Check“

01 0-23 * * * `journalctl –output=short -S yesterday| tail -c 131072 > /var/log/syslog` && `scp /var/log/syslog root@192.168.1.171:/var/log/UrgentSyslogShort.rpi-samba-01`
05 0-23 * * * `tail -c 131072 /var/log/samba/log.smbd > /var/log/smbd.log` && `scp /var/log/smbd.log root@192.168.1.171:/var/log/UrgentSambaLogShort.rpi-samba-01`

root@rpi-samba-01:~#

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