On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Glen Barber <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, APseudoUtopia <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] >> >> ##### >> # User www's crontab >> # Note, I also tried removing the MAILTO to no avail >> ##### >> MAILTO=root >> # m h dom mon dow cmd >> * * * * * echo "Hello" >> >> > [snip] > > 1.) You are not using the full path to /bin/echo, which is why it is failing. > > 2.) This is a poor designed way to test cron's mail output. > > A Better(tm) way would be something like: > MAILTO=root > */5 * * * * /bin/ping -c1 localhost >/dev/null > > which would mail to root on success or failure. > > Regards, > > -- > Glen Barber >
Thanks for the tips. I've put the following line in my normal user account's crontab (This account does have a shell, it's one I use on a daily basis): SHELL=/bin/sh [email protected] * * * * * /sbin/ping -c4 localhost I'm getting no emails at all. In /var/log/maillog, I'm getting the following output: Mar 3 21:10:00 domain sendmail[86797]: n23LA0td086797: from=www, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, msgid=<[email protected]>, relay=...@localhost _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
