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From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Cron Not Sending Mail
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On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> wro=
te:
[snip]
>
> #####
> # User www's crontab
> # Note, I also tried removing the MAILTO to no avail
> #####
> MAILTO=3Droot
> # m =A0 =A0 h =A0 =A0 =A0 dom =A0 =A0 mon =A0 =A0 dow =A0 =A0 cmd
> * =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 * =A0 =A0 =A0 ech=
o "Hello"
>
>
[snip]

1.)  You are not using the full path to /bin/echo, which is why it is faili=
ng.

2.) This is a poor designed way to test cron's mail output.

A Better(tm) way would be something like:
MAILTO=3Droot
*/5 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 localhost >/dev/null

which would mail to root on success or failure.

Regards,

--=20
Glen Barber