Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 18:16:52 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron not sending emails Message-ID: <20100530161652.GA4423@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <4C028270.5030900@shopzeus.com> References: <4BFFAC35.2040503@shopzeus.com> <4BFFDCC4.5080408@fechner.net> <4C00099D.6070005@shopzeus.com> <4C028270.5030900@shopzeus.com>
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El día Sunday, May 30, 2010 a las 05:21:20PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy escribió: > If I put this into root's crontab > >>> > >>>* * * * * echo "TEST" > >> > >>a quick guess, you have a line like: > >>MAILTO="address" > >> > >It doesn't work. With, or without the MAILTO. Just for completeness, > >I have used this: > > > >MAILTO=gandalf > > > >The "gandalf" user is a local user on the system. I can send local > >mail to this user using the "sendmail" postfix program (checked twice). > Cron is still not sending emails. Any idea? Yes, check the log of cron (/var/log/cron) if you job is run at all; if so check the log of mails (/var/log/maillog). Btw: what is the purpose of putting TEST into ""? matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ ¡Ya basta! ¡Tropas de OTAN, fuera de Afghanistan! There's an end of it! NATO troups out of Afghanistan! Schluss jetzt endlich! NATO raus aus Afghanistan!
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