Re: Cron and mail

2007-07-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:16:25PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > AS: does mail work on the system? can you mail from the command line? does > > AS: the cron job produce any output to mail? > > AS: > > AS: A > > AS: > > It seems that maildir (as I had configured it) won't work with cron (am I >

Re: Cron and mail

2007-07-26 Thread Sergio Belkin
--- El Jue 26 Jul 2007, Andrew Sackville-West encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: > AS: On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:33:30AM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > AS: > --- El Jue 26 Jul 2007, Marc encontró un teclado y tipeó lo > siguiente: AS: > > Ma: Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is

Re: Cron and mail

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:33:30AM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > --- El Jue 26 Jul 2007, Marc encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: > > Ma: Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is called "MAILTO" and not > > Ma: "MAIL"? > > Ma: You can try with that, but in general, as the man page says

Re: Cron and mail

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:00:36PM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi > Non-root users are not getting information mail about scheduled tasks. > I've included the line MAIL=joendoe in jondoe user. Task are performed > but users are not notified. > > I am using Etch and exim4. What's wrong with this?

Re: Cron and mail

2007-07-26 Thread Sergio Belkin
--- El Jue 26 Jul 2007, Marc encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: > Ma: Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is called "MAILTO" and not > Ma: "MAIL"? > Ma: You can try with that, but in general, as the man page says: > Ma: "When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner

Re: Cron and mail

2007-07-25 Thread Marc
Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is called "MAILTO" and not "MAIL"? You can try with that, but in general, as the man page says: "When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab ..." Sergio Belkin wrote: > Hi > Non-root users are not getting information

Cron and mail

2007-07-25 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi Non-root users are not getting information mail about scheduled tasks. I've included the line MAIL=joendoe in jondoe user. Task are performed but users are not notified. I am using Etch and exim4. What's wrong with this? -- -- Sergio Belkin - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi