Given this line in your output "(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)" that means cron is having a problem with your script but because you don't have an MTA installed it can't email you the output to tell you what failed.
I would guess you probably have a PATH issue. http://askubuntu.com/questions/23009/reasons-why-crontab-does-not-work -- Daniel R. <[email protected]> [http://danielr.neophi.com/] On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:59 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm having one of those days. I have created some Grunt scripts to do some > build work. I have created the first script to do a JSHint check on JS > files in the repo, and then send an email with the errors. Works great - > I'm using grunt with jshint, and that module has an escape to call a custom > formatter for the JSHint errors, also written in javascript. I'm using > Amazon SES to send the emails. > > All works fine in practice, but it will not run in CRON. I can see the > cron jobs starting in the CRON jobs. No errors. I can run the commands from > the command line, no errors - works beautifully. I can run other cron jobs > that dump data out to /tmp, no problem. But no output comes out of the > Grunt job. > > So I took the formatter out, and ran it as a plain node.js job. Works > fine. But again, it does nothing as a CRON job. I have stripped out > everything, except for the part where it sends an email, and I'm just > sending hard coded text with a hard coded email address. Will run again > from the command line, so permissions are fine, but when I try to run as > CRON, nothing happens. > > Any suggestions. I have been up and down the permissions check. I have > change the files and the directory where they work over to allow anything. > Still nothing. I created the crontab entry with crontab -e, so it is > running in the same user, (ubuntu,) that owns the directories and files. > > Running on Ubuntu 12.04. I'm stumped. Any ideas? I have set it up to run > every minute. > > Here's the crontab line: > */1 * * * * sh /var/test/trunk/build/batch_jshint.sh > > The cron logs: > Jul 18 21:57:01 ip-10-251-25-8 CRON[2561]: (ubuntu) CMD (sh > /var/test/trunk/build/batch_jshint.sh) > Jul 18 21:57:01 ip-10-251-25-8 CRON[2562]: (ubuntu) CMD (sh > /var/test/trunk/build/test.sh) > Jul 18 21:57:01 ip-10-251-25-8 CRON[2563]: (ubuntu) CMD (/usr/bin/uptime > > /tmp/uptime) > Jul 18 21:57:01 ip-10-251-25-8 CRON[2560]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, > discarding output) > Jul 18 21:58:01 ip-10-251-25-8 CRON[2581]: (ubuntu) CMD (sh > /var/test/trunk/build/batch_jshint.sh) > Jul 18 21:58:01 ip-10-251-25-8 CRON[2582]: (ubuntu) CMD (sh > /var/test/trunk/build/test.sh) > Jul 18 21:58:01 ip-10-251-25-8 CRON[2583]: (ubuntu) CMD (/usr/bin/uptime > > /tmp/uptime) > Jul 18 21:58:01 ip-10-251-25-8 CRON[2580]: (CRON) info (No MTA installed, > discarding output) > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
