From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 14:52:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D46AC37B403 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 14:52:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) Received: from sobek.lan ([62.252.8.119]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010830214903.WNWX710.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@sobek.lan>; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:49:03 +0100 Received: (from greid@localhost) by sobek.lan (8.11.5/8.11.5) id f7ULn1h83825; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:49:02 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from greid@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: sobek.lan: greid set sender to greid@FreeBSD.org using -f Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 22:49:01 +0100 From: George Reid To: Dan Langille Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: odd messages from cron jobs Message-ID: <20010830224901.A79203@FreeBSD.org> References: <3B8DF1F6.15579.2A7F8A5A@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B8DF1F6.15579.2A7F8A5A@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:57:42AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:57:42AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > This morning, I found these waiting in my mailbox. I have a feeling > I've found up pasting something where it shouldn't been pasted... > > Subject: Cron /home/backups/backup.sh 2>&1 | > mail -s "torix backup" root > > you: not found That'll be part of the output of /home/backups/backup.sh; that's where you need to be looking. Without seeing the script it's impossible to do anything other than guess. Perhaps something isn't handling filenames with spaces in them correctly or something? -- +-------------------+---------------------+ | George Reid | FreeBSD Committer | | +44 7740 197460 | greid@FreeBSD.org | +-------------------+---------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message