[CentOS] Re: Cron not sending e-mails anymore

Ugo Bellavance ugob at camo-route.com
Tue Jul 25 12:54:36 UTC 2006


Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Jim Perrin wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Yes, I had a mailto line.  I removed it and I'm testing right now.
> 

It didn't change anything, and the last update to vixie-cron was in april.

Is cron supposed to send both standard input and output?




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