>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. -------------------- Marble Consulting ---------------------- Gerrit Cap http://www.marble.be/ OO Solutions Engineer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marble Consulting Blauwe Gaanweg, 53 tel : +32 475 72.94.36 B-9150 Kruibeke-Bazel fax : +32 3 744.19.17 Belgium -------------------- Marble Consulting ---------------------- There is only one thing in the world worse than being witty, and thats not being witty. (Monthy Python) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
