Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <3E79A49B.52D2E69E@swipnet.se> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 12:23:07 +0100 From: a12 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: ssmtp issued by cron fails Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi gurus, My crontab contains: SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=sysaccount 15 * * * * echo $USER >> $HOME/c.log For some reasons this crontab fails, and cron issues a request to ssmtp to notify the user, as I can see in Windows Event Log: sSMTP mail : PID 1032 : /usr/sbin/ssmtp sent mail for sysaccount. /USR/SBIN/CRON : PID 1240 : (sysaccount) MAIL (mailed 89 bytes of output but got status 0xffffffff Why does ssmtp yield the error status above ? Marek -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/