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Date:  Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:03 -0500
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Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> It's working because we know it's trying to mail you something.
> To find out what,  remove MAILTO="" and install a poor man's mailer as follows.
> It will write the mail output to /cronmail.txt
> 
> ~: cd /
> /: cat > cronmail.sh
> cat > /cronmail.txt

(NOTE: type CTRL-C after typing the above line)

...and shouldn't that be 'cat >> ...' instead of 'cat > ...'?

> /: chmod a+rx /cronmail.sh 
> /: cd /usr/sbin
> /usr/sbin: ln -sf /cronmail.sh sendmail

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Matthew
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