X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: r Subject: Re: cron jobs and email Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <6910a60807201111p7451ccecl22cef18fa86e2875 AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Reini Urban x-ray.at> writes: > > 2008/7/20 r: > > I've a problem with cron, it does not send email > > when the job is done. > > Very good! I'm seeing improvement following > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Netiquette > Esp. "Mail should have a subject heading which reflects the content of > the message." ??? Subject : cron jobs and email " I've a problem with cron, it does not send email when the job is done. " where is the mismatch ??????? > Also "cron & mail"? yes "cron & mail" too, and I followed all the directions > > MAILTO=Proprietario > This should be a valid email address? yes, it is my login account under winxp > Try sending the email on the commandline to this address. cron does it > as your local user or as user SYSTEM, dependent of how you installed > your cron service. the correct address is Proprietario AT nome-1m3b12i2gp I tried with "email" program and it send emails to this account correctly > cron just uses the /usr/bin/sendmail symlink. > Check your eventlog for cron errors. as I told /var/log/cron.log is empty the result of " cronevents " is 2008/07/20 22:36:33 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) BEGIN EDIT (Proprietario) 2008/07/20 22:36:49 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) REPLACE (Proprietario) 2008/07/20 22:36:49 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) END EDIT (Proprietario) 2008/07/20 22:37:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 440: (Proprietario) RELOAD (tabs/Proprietario) 2008/07/20 22:38:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3752: (Proprietario) CMD (/bin/prova.sh) > Maybe another RFC will help, SMTP http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html What are you speaking about, I think I'm able to managed basic rules about smtp. Thank'you -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/