Cygwin: I have a Debian box and several Cygwin boxes that back themselves up every night and rsync the tarballs to a central Cygwin/XP backup server. It all works, with the exception that I can't figure out how to get the Cygwin boxes to send me e-mail reports (the Debian box does this, and it's very useful). I've downloaded, installed, and configured Cygwin exim (and opened up the Windows Firewall SMTP port) expecting that cron would send messages via the /usr/sbin/sendmail symbolic link, but that didn't seem to do the trick. I downloaded, installed, and fumbled around with everything else available under the Cygwin Setup "Mail" category, plus some manual command-line tests, looking at logs, etc., but couldn't figure it out. I searched the Cygwin FAQ, User's Guide, and mailing list, and searched Google for permutations on "Cygwin cron mail", but I didn't find anything that looked like it addressed this specific issue.
Is Cygwin cron supposed to send e-mail reports?
TIA,
David
p.s. Here is a command line test of Debian mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a test of Debian mail invoked as follows:
mail -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.
Cc:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
It worked -- e.g. the Debian box sent it via SMTP to the recipient.
p.p.s. Here is a command line test using Cygwin email:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ email -s test [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sending "test" |**************************************** \
96% of 569 Bytes
E-Mail Sent
It didn't work. Looking at the logs:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail -n 6 /var/log/exim/exim_main.log
2005-01-09 08:45:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
2005-01-09 09:00:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
2005-01-09 09:15:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=dpchr
ist P=local S=716
2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 cloud.he.net [65.19.145.2]:
Software caused connection abort
2005-01-09 09:18:21 IA282L-00030G-88 == [EMAIL PROTECTED]
m R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (113): Software caused connection abor
t
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail -n 3 /var/log/exim/exim_panic.log
2005-01-09 08:45:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
2005-01-09 09:00:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
2005-01-09 09:15:41 daemon: fork of queue-runner process failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable
Is this the Cygwin rebase issue? I don't see "rebase" in the
Cygwin FAQ or User's Guide. Is there something that explains the
Cygwin rebase issue?
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