On Fri, 02 Jan 2015, Manikandan M wrote:
> I have written a small script to email (using ssmpt) some details, and
> scheduled it in crontab. The script is running as per time mentioned in the
> cron but ssmtp is not sending the mail. please find the details below.
> 
> user@host ~ $ cat bin/email-script
> /home/user/bin/actual-script > ~/details-file
> ssmtp usern...@gmail.com < ~/details-file
> echo $? > ~/email-status
>
> The crontab entry is as below
> 0 9 * * * /home/user/email-script

If this is actually the script,

1) It's missing #!/bin/sh or #!/bin/bash

2) It's in /home/user/bin/email-script, not /home/user/email-script

3) It may not be executable.

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