Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 14:17:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crontab behavior in AMD64 Message-ID: <20050701141651.P3559@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20050701180238.GB85960@isis.sigpipe.cz> References: <200507011316.j61DGsuD090436@lurza.secnetix.de> <20050701112803.N2991@zoraida.natserv.net> <20050701180238.GB85960@isis.sigpipe.cz>
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Roman Neuhauser wrote: >> I am still trying to figure it out. What I find disconcerting is that it >> seems the cron job fails because the email fails. > > What exactly does crond feed into the sendmail? You can quite easily > find out by putting a suitable script in /etc/mail/mailer.conf. > Something that writes "$@" and its STDIN in a file will do. Already found the problem.. posted to this list. It had to do with a file called /etc/nsswitch.conf and not having NIS anymore in the machine. will post full story on questions for the archives.. but basically if one compiles without NIS one needs to change /etc/nsswitch.conf
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