Cron is not sending output as emails. I noticed this when I stopped seeing the output of a backup script in my daily email. I thought there was a problem with the backup script - but no, it's cron not sending the emails.
I had this problem before on 6.1, which I never found a solution to. I gave up on it, and eventually I upgraded to 7.1. After the upgrade, cron worked perfectly. However, I just noticed that it stopped working again. I have no idea what changed (It's a production server, I haven't been playing with config files). User www's mail is redirected to root, which is redirected to a @gmail account via /etc/aliases. This is on 7.1-RELEASE-p3 running a custom kernel. Any solution to this problem would be fantastic. I use the emails from cron on a daily basis, and it really messes me up to have it not working. ##### # User www's crontab # Note, I also tried removing the MAILTO to no avail ##### MAILTO=root # m h dom mon dow cmd * * * * * echo "Hello" #### # /var/log/cron #### Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant /usr/sbin/cron[22627]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy) Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22627]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, setgrent, not found Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22627]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, endgrent, not found Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22627]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, passwd_compat, endpwent, not found Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant /usr/sbin/cron[22628]: (www) CMD (echo "Hello") Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22628]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, setgrent, not found Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22628]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, endgrent, not found Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22628]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, passwd_compat, endpwent, not found Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22630]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, setgrent, not found Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22630]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, group_compat, endgrent, not found Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant cron[22630]: NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, passwd_compat, endpwent, not found #### # /var/log/maillog #### Mar 1 19:22:00 youcant sendmail[22630]: n21JM0Gl022630: from=www, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, msgid=<200903011922.n21jm0gl022...@youcant.tastetherainbow.ws>, relay=...@localhost _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
