crontab just wont stop mailing ... !
This is a re-posting for a very frustrating problem. I have dial on demand
via pppd, works like a dream. However I have problems with crontab.
Every so oftern it decides to mail its output, it does not know where it is
supposed to mail, starts a ppp link and talks to the web.
I have set MAILTO="", MAILTO=root all to no avail
/var/log/syslog
Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' started
Jan 30 07:23:55 debian anacron[611]: Updated timestamp for job `cron.weekly'
to 2003-01-30
Jan 30 07:24:01 debian syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart.
Jan 30 07:24:01 debian anacron[249]: Job `cron.weekly' terminated (mailing
output)
Jan 30 07:24:01 debian pppd[189]: Starting link
Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Serial connection established.
Jan 30 07:24:29 debian pppd[189]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/modem
My /etc/crontab now looks like ...
# /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab
# Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab'
# command to install the new version when you edit this file.
# This file also has a username field, that none of the other crontabs do.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
# m h dom mon dow user command
25 6 * * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts /etc/cron.daily
47 6 * * 7 root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
52 6 1 * * root test -e /usr/sbin/anacron || run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
#
I thought I had cured the problem until it did it again tonight !!!
do I need to do something with the crontab command ??
any ideas
Dave
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