Hey,

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 01:01:01PM +0200, Dennis Schridde wrote:
> Can someone please figure out where the output of /usr/local/bin/homepage-
> update.pl, ran from /etc/cron.d/homepage on homepage.g.o, ends up?
> And whom the Cron daemon does mail in case of errors (return value != 0)?.

It should go to root -> homepage:/etc/aliases -> [email protected] ->
mail:/etc/aliases ---> [email protected].

> The logs in /var/log/homepage_update.log show loads of error messages, but 
> apparently the output and return code of the die() call in the script never 
> reached any mailinglist.
> (And I do not know enough about Perl and whatever Cron we are running to find 
> out about this in the time I have.)

Afaics the script does not produce any output, so nothing is mailed.

> P.S. Do we have a log cleaning cronjob?
> homepage-update.pl refused to run because /var/lock/homepage-update, maybe 
> that can be fixed automatically by a cronjob, checking whether some specific 
> job is running, and removing the lock otherwise.

Usually there's a lock for a reason, so it doesn't sound a good idea
to remove it automatically.  I suggesting trying and understanding
what caused the dead lock in the first place.

-- 
Sylvain

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