Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 16:57:15 +0200 From: Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron not sending emails Message-ID: <4BFFD9CB.6060301@shopzeus.com> In-Reply-To: <4BC103AF-B09F-486A-A8FF-66E33DF00515@mac.com> References: <4BFFAC35.2040503@shopzeus.com> <4BC103AF-B09F-486A-A8FF-66E33DF00515@mac.com>
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Chuck Swiger írta: > Hi-- > > On May 28, 2010, at 4:42 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > >> If I put this into root's crontab >> >> * * * * * echo "TEST" >> >> then I see this in the maillog: >> >> May 14 10:53:00 server postfix/sendmail[2958]: fatal: user(1001): No recipient addresses found in message header >> > > These do not correspond. I can assure you, that the maillog DOES correspond to the cron job. E.g. if I add two jobs for the same point in time, then two new lines will appear in the maillog, at exactly the given time. If I remove them, then no line will show up etc. > It seems to think that the crontab is for uid 1001, but it can't seem to lookup a passwd entry for that uid: > > >> log_it: (tmp.27734 92380) ORPHAN (no passwd entry) >> > > Well, actually it is not just user=1001. Many users have crontabs on this system. I cannot tell which one is orphaned. (Maybe munin? That was removed recently from the system...) Actually, user 1001 does have a password entry. So do others, and their crontabs are working. Programs are started by cron, but their output is lost. L
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