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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