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Pierre A. Humblet wrote on 4/13/2007 :
> ----- 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).

Hello,

I use a Windows email program to send email from the script I have 
written. When I run the script from a shell prompt it runs fine and 
sends email to be but when I run it from cron I get a email but text in 
the body.

I setup this as you had suggested earlier:
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

Pierre

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




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