Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:57:06 -0400
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
Subject: Re: crontab not sending output to me?
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Markle" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:55 PM
Subject: crontab not sending output to me?


| Hello,
| 
| I'm running this crontab. When I run /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| from a command line it works but when I run it from cron I get no 
| content in the email I recive.
| 
| My Crontab:
| MAILTO=""
| # minute   hour   day of month   month   day of week   command
| 0       8       *       *       2,4     
| /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| 0       22      *       *       0,2     
| /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| 0       16      *       *       *       
| /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| 51      15      *       *       *       
| /cygdrive/e/wsus/run_all_groups.sh
| 

Given that MAILTO="", you should not receive an e-mail. So that answers
the Subject of your e-mail. However the body suggests that you receive
some e-mail from cron, which is strange.

Could you clarify what the problem is, tell us if cron is running (ps -a shows it),
provide any useful info from the Windows event log and /var/log/cron.log
as well as the output of 'cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.txt' as an attachment.

 If you remove MAILTO="", cron will attempt to send you the output through
/usr/sbin/sendmail. What does that point to? If it points to /usr/bin/cronlog, the
output should appear in HOME/cron.log, or in case of error there should be
temporary files in /tmp. 

Pierre (going away until Monday).


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