[GLLUG] cron question

jason justman justmanj at msu.edu
Wed Oct 1 16:58:21 EDT 2003


and finishing on my original statement, you might wannda double check 
/etc/aliases if you have them running under a different user, maybe look 
at /var/log/cron.

of course, i suppose instead of /dev/null you could always pipe mail 
yourself - '|mail szidik at mlcnet.org' at the end

j


Mark Szidik/mlc wrote:

>
>
>I have never had any trouble with cron in the past, but lately I have found
>that on RH 8 none of the output from my cron jobs get mailed to me.  Even
>when I set the MAIL= variable it makes no difference - still no output.
>The jobs are running.  Has anyone run into this before?  How do I work
>around it?
>
>Thanks,
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