Re: cron without sendmail generates bogus logfile names

2008-09-10 Thread Linus Hicks
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > Try running the mailer script through 'd2u'. If that doesn't work, > it suggests a difference in the environment for the cron service > versus your interactive shell. Any chance you have another, Win32- > native "date" hanging around?

Re: cron without sendmail generates bogus logfile names

2008-09-09 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Linus Hicks wrote: The "poor man's mailer" included as part of the cron package uses the following construct to generate part of the filename used in making log file names: DATE=$(date '+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S') It then generates the filename as: FILE="/tmp/cron.$DATE.$$.log" However, it seems to be t