On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Shantaraman,Karthik <k.shantara...@ufl.edu> wrote: > Hi, > I have set up cygwin in my Windows Vista machine and have configured cron by > running the cygrunsrv command. > > I am trying to send an automated mail everyday with cron but it is not > working out. Could you help me with this? > > #Borrowed from anacron > SHELL=/bin/bash > PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > USER=karthik.tec...@gmail.com > MAILTO="karthik.tec...@gmail.com" > #End borrowed from anacron > > 15 10 * * * sendmail /USER=karthik.tec...@gmail.com > "karthik.tec...@gmail.com" testmail > > > I have installed the ssmtp package also after i researched about this > online. > > But it says : > > $ ssmtp-config > -bash: ssmtp-config: command not found
This is, oddly, not very easily found/well documented when you do Google searches for 'cygwin cron sendmail'. cron on cygwin installs a symlink to /usr/bin/cronlog as /usr/sbin/sendmail on installation. This is a good thing. This script creates a file named 'cron.log' in your home directory for any cron command outputs. If you look at it, you'll notice many sendmail-like headers in the file. To have cron actually send emails, you need to set up /usr/sbin/sendmail as a link (or a program) to something that actually sends mails. I'm using msmtp, but I'm guessing ssmtp will be similar. Steps: 1) Remove the link /usr/sbin/sendmail 2) Create a new shell script or link in its place So: rm /usr/sbin/sendmail ln -s /usr/bin/msmtp /usr/sbin/sendmail (Note - use a decent editor instead of cat ... Control-D) I just installed 'msmtp' on a new install and ran 'msmtp-config'. If /usr/sbin/sendmail does *not* exist (ie, you install msmpt *before* cron) then it will create this link for you. Once you do all this, edit your crontab and put an entry in it like this: * * * * * date And reload (if you didn't do a 'crontab -e' to edit) It may take up to 2 minutes for cron to start doing stuff, as the minute in runs it'll load in the new crontab and then the *following* minute, it will run 'date' and should e-mail it to. Once you start getting e-mails, just comment this line out or delete it. -- Nem W Schlecht -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
