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Re: Cron <joy@master> /org/lists.debian.org/cron.daily



On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 08:36:21PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 01:23:06PM -0500, Cron Daemon wrote:
> > ERROR: Unable to create /org/lists.debian.org/www/debian-user-0008/.mhonarc.lck after 10 tries
> > /org/lists.debian.org/mhonarc/bin/mhonarc -quiet -rcfile /org/lists.debian.org/scripts/debian.rc -outdir /org/lists.debian.org/www/debian-user-0008 -definevar 'DEBLISTNAME="debian-user Aug 00"' -add /org/lists.debian.org/lists/debian-user-0008: 19200 at ./updatemail line 195, <F> chunk 1.
> 
> Can someone enlighten me what is this about? :)
> 
Does
touch /org/lists.debian.org/www/debian-user-0008/.mhonarc.lck
work for you?

> BTW JT, how will you make the cron mail go to treacy-mastercron address?
> Set some variable?
> 
I changed that. I'm now setting
MAILTO=debian-www@lists.debian.org
in the crontab that runs the daily update.

By setting the MAILTO variable in a crontab, mail containing the output
is sent to that address if the cron job fails.

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org



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