From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 30 21:35:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F1537B407; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 21:35:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f7V4Vxd10588; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:32:00 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: George Reid Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:31:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: odd messages from cron jobs Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <3B8EDAFD.14373.2E0D86CF@localhost> In-reply-to: <20010830224901.A79203@FreeBSD.org> References: <3B8DF1F6.15579.2A7F8A5A@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:57:42AM -0400 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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 30 Aug 2001, at 22:49, George Reid wrote: > 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? Found and solved.... $ mail /usr/bin/mail: you: command not found $ file /usr/bin/mail /usr/bin/mail: ASCII text Hmmmm, OK, lovely.... I guess I did that... time to recompile. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ - the place for ports To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message