I think it's not a group issue. I put myself at cron and crontab groups, just in case. If it was a group thing, you wouldn't even be able to "crontab -e". I edit my cron table using: "crontab -e" (no extra parameters needed). Check it out by "crontab -l". For root, I do the same.
Regards, Saffi On 1/22/08, Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 +0000 > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: > > > > > Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting > > > emails? The test is simple, just "echo hello world". I expect this > > > to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO="". But it > > > doesn't. > > > > It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try > > > > echo -e "To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test" | /usr/sbin/ssmtp > > youraddress > > > > If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub > > setting. > > No fail. Worked like a charm... > > I edit my crontab like sudo crontab -u mykhyggz -e > > At the top, is MAILTO="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > My user belongs to cron group: groups > wheel cron users mykhyggz > > Cron is running: top bn1|grep cron > 5068 root 18 0 3072 692 552 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.00 cron > > 15 08 * * * echo hello world > > should have sent me an email with 'hello world' in the body at 8:15, or > so I believe, but didn't. > > What else can I check? > > Cheers, > > -- > |\ /| | | ~ ~ > | \/ | |---| `|` ? > | |ichael | |iggins \^ / > michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Ricardo Saffi Marques Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de Sistemas (LAS/IC) Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) Cell: +55 (19) 8128-0435 Skype: ricardo_saffi_marques Website: http://www.rsaffi.com
