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Re: Cron & ssmtp timeouts
- From: Gerrit Cap <Gerrit dot Cap at marble dot be>
- To: jason at tishler dot net, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:51:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: Cron & ssmtp timeouts
>Gerrit,
>
>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:03:56PM +0200, Gerrit Cap wrote:
> > I have a few batch jobs that I would like to schedule using cron and have
> > the output e-mailed. For small jobs this works fine but for jobs that run
> > for a period of time no e-mail is being sent. Instead after snooping
> around
> > I found this error message in /var/log/cron.log:
> > /usr/sbin/ssmtp: connection lost in the middle of processing, exiting.
>
>I had similar problems.
>
> > Any ideas how to solve this ?
>
>Yes, if you are willing to use procmail and read the cron mail (only)
>locally, see the attached patch. I have patched my cron to deliver mail
>via procmail instead of ssmtp in order to:
>
> o solve the above problem
> o prevent mail servers from removing the X-Cron-Env header fields
> o remove the dependency of multiple mail hops just to send mail
> to myself
>
>Jason
Jason,
Ok, thanx for the patch, but I solved it differently which gave me an extra
bonus:
I created another batch script (batch-mail.sh) which launched the original
batch program (batch.sh), redirected its output to batch.out and e-mails me
that output. Problem solved and now I have as additional "feature" that my
e-mails can be tuned to different mailboxes depending on the batch job.
Gerrit.
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