Hi Noah, It's probably torture trying to debug this all through cron. You should try the pieces independently - can you verify that sendmail actually works on your machine? Try sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using it.
-Ken On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 05:37 AM, Noah Hoffman wrote: > Hmm, still not working. Here's what's in /var/log/system.log > > Aug 8 12:16:00 dhcp-192-168-66-178 CRON[4954]: (releaseb) CMD > (root open /Volumes/Builds/Development/perl.pl.command) > Aug 8 12:16:00 dhcp-192-168-66-178 sendmail[4955]: > g78JG0eG004955: SYSERR(releaseb): collect: Cannot write > ./dfg78JG0eG004955 (bfcommit, uid=25, gid=25): P$ > Aug 8 12:16:00 dhcp-192-168-66-178 sendmail[4955]: > g78JG0eG004955: SYSERR(releaseb): queueup: cannot create queue > temp file ./tfg78JG0eG004955, uid=25: Per$ > Aug 8 12:16:00 dhcp-192-168-66-178 CRON[4953]: (releaseb) MAIL > (mailed 29 bytes of output but got status 0x0047 ) > Aug 8 12:17:52 dhcp-192-168-66-178 su: releaseb to root on /dev/ttyp1 > > > In crontab, I have [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I'm not > getting email either. Do you know what I'm missing? I thought > I was getting the 'cannot create temp file' error because I > wasn't root, but the crontab line is as follows: > > 16 12 * * * root open Volumes/Builds/Development/perl.pl.command > > Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > Noah > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Morbus Iff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:37 AM > To: Noah Hoffman; 'Rich & Michaela'; Noah Hoffman > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Launching a Perl file with Cron on OS X? > > >> Now, the process launches but it remains hidden. Is there a >> way to launch >> the terminal so I can see the perl scripts running? Or, >> should I redirect >> the output? > > Rename the perl script to "perl.pl.command", and use "open". A > shell file > with an extension of ".command" becomes double-clickable through the > Finder. The "open" shell utility duplicates a double-click. > > > -- > Morbus Iff ( i'm the droid you're looking for ) > Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ > Please Me: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/wishlist/25USVJDH68554 > icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus
