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Re: cron jobs and email


Reini Urban <rurban <at> x-ray.at> writes:

> 
> 2008/7/20 r:
> > I've a problem with cron, it does not send email
> > when the job is done.
> 
> Very good! I'm seeing improvement following
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Netiquette
> Esp. "Mail should have a subject heading which reflects the content of
> the message."

???
Subject : cron jobs and email
" I've a problem with cron, it does not send email
  when the job is done. "

where is the mismatch ???????


> Also "cron & mail"?

yes "cron & mail" too, and I followed all the directions


> > MAILTO=Proprietario
 
> This should be a valid email address?

yes, it is my login account under winxp

> Try sending the email on the commandline to this address. cron does it
> as your local user or as user SYSTEM, dependent of how you installed
> your cron service.

the correct address is Proprietario@nome-1m3b12i2gp
I tried with "email" program and it send emails to this account
correctly

> cron just uses the /usr/bin/sendmail symlink.
> Check your eventlog for cron errors.

as I told /var/log/cron.log is empty
the result of " cronevents " is 

2008/07/20 22:36:33 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) BEGIN EDIT
(Proprietario)  
2008/07/20 22:36:49 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) REPLACE
(Proprietario)     
2008/07/20 22:36:49 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) END EDIT
(Proprietario)    
2008/07/20 22:37:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 440: (Proprietario) RELOAD
(tabs/Proprietario) 
2008/07/20 22:38:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3752: (Proprietario) CMD
(/bin/prova.sh)       

> Maybe another RFC will help, SMTP http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html

What are you speaking about, I think I'm able to managed basic rules
about smtp. Thank'you



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