[CentOS] Cron not sending e-mails anymore

Jim Perrin jperrin at gmail.com
Tue Jul 25 12:20:43 UTC 2006


On 7/24/06, Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>         I have a cronjob that executes a script that has some echo statements
> in it and the commands in it also generate output (it copies files,
> reloads services, etc...).
>
>         Recently, cron stopped sending its output by e-mail.  I restarted cron,
> without success.  Any ideas where I shoud start to debug this?

While it shouldn't happen, it's possible that the behavior changed
during an update. Do you have a MAILTO line in your crontab? If so, is
it defined, or an empty set?

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George Orwell



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