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 _______________________________________________ Project mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/project
