Re: creating and logging a daily cron job

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 14:57 +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Tue Oct 14, 2008 at 14:55:15 +0100, michael wrote:
> 
> > ratty:~# ls /var/mail
> > mail  michael
> > ratty:~# 
> 
>   You might find that /var/mail/mail is mail for the root user.
> 
> Steve

well I did check it ;)
but it didn't have a recent timestamp/messages:

michael@ratty:~$ sudo su -
Password:
ratty:~# ls -lt /var/mail/mail
-rw------- 1 mail mail 4165 Nov 11  2004 /var/mail/mail
ratty:~# mail -f /var/mail/mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001.  Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/mail": 4 messages 4 new
>N  1 root@ratty         Thu Nov 11 18:32   25/923   Debconf:
Configuring ssh -- NOTE: Forwarding of X11 
 N  2 root@ratty         Thu Nov 11 18:32   22/812   Debconf:
Configuring mozilla-browser -- /etc/mozilla
 N  3 root@ratty         Thu Nov 11 18:32   31/1305  Debconf:
Configuring libraw1394-5 -- Check that /dev
 N  4 root@ratty         Thu Nov 11 18:32   28/1125  Debconf:
Configuring libsensors3 -- libsensors3 not 
& x
ratty:~#