On 2020-05-07 06:00, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I know I can edit the user crontab with: > > crontab -e > > and display it with > > crontab -l > > But where is it? I don't see anything like ~/.crontab > > Secondly, and more importantly, is getting a email from the user crontab. I > have in my crontab: > > SHELL=/bin/bash > PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > MAILTO=rgm > > > And nothing gets mailed to /var/spool/mail/rgm > > ls /var/spool/mail/ -ls > total 0 > 0 -rw-rw----. 1 rgm mail 0 May 5 17:21 rgm > 0 -rw-rw----. 1 rpc mail 0 May 5 17:07 rpc > > > Do I need something like postfix with a minimal installation to get the > output from my crontab? >
Sorry to be "late to the party". I did the following.... dnf install postfix systemctl --now enable postfix My crontab.... SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO=egreshko 37 * * * * /home/egreshko/bin/tippy Contents of /home/egreshko/bin/tippy [egreshko@f31k ~]$ cat bin/tippy #!/bin/sh echo HI ls /tmp And then you can see the time has past with... [egreshko@f31k ~]$ date Mon 11 May 2020 11:38:01 AM CST And this showed up in local mailbox [egreshko@f31k ~]$ cat /var/spool/mail/egreshko From egres...@f31k.greshko.com Mon May 11 11:37:01 2020 Return-Path: <egres...@f31k.greshko.com> X-Original-To: egreshko Delivered-To: egres...@f31k.greshko.com Received: by f31k.greshko.com (Postfix, from userid 1026) id 61824A7C95; Mon, 11 May 2020 11:37:01 +0800 (CST) From: "(Cron Daemon)" <egres...@f31k.greshko.com> To: egres...@f31k.greshko.com Subject: Cron <egreshko@f31k> /home/egreshko/bin/tippy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Precedence: bulk X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_ID=34> X-Cron-Env: <XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1026> X-Cron-Env: <DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1026/bus> X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_TYPE=unspecified> X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_CLASS=background> X-Cron-Env: <LANG=en_US.UTF-8> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=egreshko> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/egreshko> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=egreshko> X-Cron-Env: <USER=egreshko> Message-Id: <20200511033701.61824a7...@f31k.greshko.com> Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 11:37:01 +0800 (CST) HI sddm-:0-WDrvkF sddm-auth43c5c6d5-ceb7-4e5b-b09f-abe5c864fba1 systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-chronyd.service-5olExh systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-colord.service-759pOi systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-dbus-broker.service-2c7ROg systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-ModemManager.service-e8g5zi systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-postfix.service-tkOnQf systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-rtkit-daemon.service-vXKr2h systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-systemd-logind.service-jmYKHf systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-upower.service-24SETg Isn't that what you wanted? -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
