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Hello, Something amiss here as I receive no mail from cron (using
mailx). Haven't been able to figure it out. Your help would be greatly
appreciated.

Below is crontab - is MAILTO= right for user name only or is there a
path needed to /var/spool/mail/cmo or ~/ ? Anything else I ought to
change?

# for vixie cron
#
#$Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-apps/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v$
#
#

# Global variables
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=cmo
HOME=/

# check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly
0 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly
1 3 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily
15 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly
30 5 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly
*/10 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons
&& /usr/sbin/run-crons
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oldNbald wrote:

> Hello, Something amiss here as I receive no mail from cron (using
> mailx). Haven't been able to figure it out. Your help would be greatly
> appreciated.

Cron doesn't send mail if no output is generated, right? So everything
is going fine, apparently. Or have you actually tried putting an output
generating script in, and still got no mail?

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Peter Jensen scratched on the wall:

> Cron doesn't send mail if no output is generated, right?**So
> everything is going fine, apparently.**Or*have*you*actually*tried
> putting*an*output generating script in, and still got no mail?

Hi Peter,
Okay, didn't know that *only* errors were reported. No, I haven't put in
a script to report... know how? Thought that something would show up in
the logs which indicated the crons ran at X time. Also, seemed to me
that this script would report something by default:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/glsa-check -l
/usr/bin/glsa-check -p all

Am I wrong?
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oldNbald enlightened us with:
> Thought that something would show up in the logs which indicated the
> crons ran at X time.

It does.

> Also, seemed to me that this script would report something by
> default:

Well, why not run it manually and find out?

Sybren
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Sybren Stuvel scratched on the wall:

>> Thought that something would show up in the logs which indicated the
>> crons ran at X time.
>
> It does.
>
>> Also, seemed to me that this script would report something by
>> default:
>
> Well, why not run it manually and find out?
>

Hello Sybren, Thanks for replying. Logs are empty outside of who logged
on sort of stuff. I thought of running crons manually - and did - still
nothing in a log. Here's one such output which logged nothing and sent
no local mail:

sh-2.05b# sh check-root.cron

/usr/lib/.keep /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/.keep
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/.packlist
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux/auto/XML/Parser/.packlist
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux/.packlist /usr/lib/mozilla/include/en
igmime/.headerlist
/usr/lib/mozilla/include/ipc/.headerlist /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins
/.keep
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/.keep /lib/.keep/lib/dev-state/.keep /lib/
udev-state/.keep

eth0: PF_PACKET(/sbin/dhcpcd)

sh-2.05b# mail
No mail for cmo

sh-2.05b# mail -u root
No mail for root

What do you think ?
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So anyway, it was like, 15:26 CEST Oct 21 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
oldNbald was all like, "Dude,

> Logs are empty outside of who logged on sort of stuff. I thought of
> running crons manually - and did - still nothing in a log.

I may be asking the obvious, but.. is cron running at all?

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oldNbald enlightened us with:
> Logs are empty outside of who logged on sort of stuff.

Then there is a big chance cron isn't running.

> I thought of running crons manually - and did - still nothing in a
> log.

That's right. If you run a script manually, it won't get logged. Makes
sense, since otherwise every single thing you'd type at a shell would
be logged.

> Here's one such output which logged nothing and sent no local mail

The mail is sent by cron itself, not by the job. So running it
manually shouldn't send an email.

> sh-2.05b# sh check-root.cron
>
> /usr/lib/.keep /usr/lib/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/.keep
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/.packlist
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux/auto/XML/Parser/.packlist
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.4/i686-linux/.packlist /usr/lib/mozilla/include/en
> igmime/.headerlist
> /usr/lib/mozilla/include/ipc/.headerlist /usr/lib/gkrellm2/plugins
> /.keep
> /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/.keep /lib/.keep/lib/dev-state/.keep /lib/
> udev-state/.keep
>
> eth0: PF_PACKET(/sbin/dhcpcd)

Ok, it gives output. This output should be mailed to you when the job
is run by cron.

> What do you think ?

Cron isn't running.

Sybren
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Sybren Stuvel scratched on the wall:

> That's right. If you run a script manually, it won't get logged. Makes
> sense, since otherwise every single thing you'd type at a shell would
> be logged.

Okay, makes since. See my reply to Johan for more ... thanks.
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Johan Lindquist scratched on the wall:

> I may be asking the obvious, but.. is cron running at all?

To you both, Johan & Sybren, rc-update shows vixie-cron as "default".
And, as root, "ps -aux" shows cron running:

root 7646 0.0 0.1 1556 656 ? Ss Oct20 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron

What do you all make of that?

Also, syslogd is running.

Your time is appreciated.
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oldNbald enlightened us with:
> To you both, Johan & Sybren, rc-update shows vixie-cron as "default".
> And, as root, "ps -aux" shows cron running:

Hmm... that's weird.

Which files are you checking for log entries btw?

Sybren
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capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?