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Re: crontab not sending output to me?
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: <kmarkle at pbs dot org>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:57:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: crontab not sending output to me?
- References: <mn.6bbb7d74a1f51521.51129@pbs.org>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Markle" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:55 PM
Subject: crontab not sending output to me?
| Hello,
|
| I'm running this crontab. When I run /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| from a command line it works but when I run it from cron I get no
| content in the email I recive.
|
| My Crontab:
| MAILTO=""
| # minute hour day of month month day of week command
| 0 8 * * 2,4
| /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| 0 22 * * 0,2
| /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| 0 16 * * *
| /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| 51 15 * * *
| /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
|
Given that MAILTO="", you should not receive an e-mail. So that answers
the Subject of your e-mail. However the body suggests that you receive
some e-mail from cron, which is strange.
Could you clarify what the problem is, tell us if cron is running (ps -a shows it),
provide any useful info from the Windows event log and /var/log/cron.log
as well as the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt' as an attachment.
If you remove MAILTO="", cron will attempt to send you the output through
/usr/sbin/sendmail. What does that point to? If it points to /usr/bin/cronlog, the
output should appear in HOME/cron.log, or in case of error there should be
temporary files in /tmp.
Pierre (going away until Monday).
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