On Dec 4, 2008, at 4:21 AM, Astley Le Jasper wrote:
On Dec 4, 12:34 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Philip
Semanchuk wrote:
In my experience, the environment in which a cron job runs is
different from the environment in which some command line scripts
run...
Which is true, but again, cron should report the environment in the
mail
message. For example, here are some headers from a recent run of the
maildir backup task I have scheduled twice a day:
Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $HOME/bin/backupdir $HOME/.maildir
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/ldo>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=ldo>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=ldo>
Where do you get the emails from?
In my experience, this depends on the machine config. The machine
*should* be set up to email the user when a cron job fails. You'll log
in via terminal and get the message "You have new mail" which means
something went wrong with your cron job. As Lawrence said, run mail in
the terminal window and you'll have a message from cron. You might not
be getting these mails for some reason.
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