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Re: cron without sendmail generates bogus logfile names


Linus Hicks wrote:
The "poor man's mailer" included as part of the cron package uses the
following construct to generate part of the filename used in making
log file names:

DATE=$(date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S')

It then generates the filename as:

FILE="/tmp/cron.$DATE.$$.log"

However, it seems to be tacking on a CR character at the end of the
DATE portion which messes up the generated filenames. I cannot
reproduce this behavior in sh running in an xterm window:

Try running the mailer script through 'd2u'. If that doesn't work, it suggests a difference in the environment for the cron service versus your interactive shell. Any chance you have another, Win32- native "date" hanging around?

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