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Re: Mail form cron



On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 19:39, Bob Hilliard wrote:

>      In woody and sarge, the output of commands executed by cron.daily
> is mailed to root.  In sarge , this no longer happens.  I used to
> believe this was caused by the --report option cron tab passes to
> run-parts, but looking at the man page for run-parts indicates this is
> not true.  
> 
Are you redirecting your root e-mail somewhere[0]?  Perhaps to a
different user account?

Check /etc/aliases for a line starting "root:" -- or perhaps a
".forward" file in root's home directory?

Scott

[0] Step 1 of debugging: "Is it plugged in?"
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Scott James Remnant     Have you ever, ever felt like this?  Had strange
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