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Re: cron problem



Rick Macdonald wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote:
> 
> > Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > >
> > > Lawrence Chim wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I don't know why cron always send mail to root with the following
> > > > body.  Any idea?
> > > >
> > > > Subject: Cron <root@ppp-1-145> run-parts /etc/cron.daily
> > > > getopt: illegal option -- o
> > >
> > > You might want to post the file "/etc/cron.daily" so we can see
> > > what the problem is.
> >
> > Here is the files in /etc/cron.daily.  Sorry if it is too many.
> 
> The man page for savelog doesn't show any "-o". My script has
> "-u root", not "-o root".
> 
> Here's yours:
> 
> set -e
> cd /var/log/smail
> savelog -o root -g mail -m 644 -c 7 logfile paniclog >/dev/null
> 

I am surprised to know that because I never touch the cron script
and it was installed by the cron package by default I think.

lawrence,

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