Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 22:14:18 -0500 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cron Not Sending Mail Message-ID: <4ad871310903021914q647d6a40ncdb0bb9d8a3582c9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <27ade5280903011124v4d6d9fdq2071d5ab44a37ca9@mail.gmail.com> References: <27ade5280903011124v4d6d9fdq2071d5ab44a37ca9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> wrote: [snip] > > ##### > # User www's crontab > # Note, I also tried removing the MAILTO to no avail > ##### > MAILTO=root > # m h dom mon dow cmd > * * * * * echo "Hello" > > [snip] 1.) You are not using the full path to /bin/echo, which is why it is failing. 2.) This is a poor designed way to test cron's mail output. A Better(tm) way would be something like: MAILTO=root */5 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 localhost >/dev/null which would mail to root on success or failure. Regards, -- Glen Barberhelp
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