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Re: Cron and mail



On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:33:30AM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote:
> --- El Jue 26 Jul 2007, Marc encontró un teclado y tipeó lo siguiente: 
> > Ma: Hmmm.. one thing might be that the variable is called "MAILTO" and not
> > Ma: "MAIL"?
> > Ma: You can try with that, but in general, as the man page says:
> > Ma: "When executing commands, any output is  mailed  to  the  owner  of
> > Ma: the  crontab ..."
> > Ma:
> > Ma: Sergio Belkin wrote:
> > Ma: > Hi
> > Ma: > Non-root users are not getting information mail about scheduled
> > tasks. Ma: > I've included the line MAIL=joendoe in jondoe user. Task are
> > performed Ma: > but users are not notified.
> > Ma: >
> > Ma: > I am using Etch and exim4. What's wrong with this?
> > Ma:
> > Ma:
> 
> Thanks, "MAIL" was a typo, but even if I issue MAILTO=jondoe in jondoe user 
> crontab file, it doesn't work either...

does mail work on the system? can you mail from the command line? does
the cron job produce any output to mail? 

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