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Chad Feller wrote: |
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> Curious. I just tested it on two of my Gentoo boxes. added myself to |
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> the cron group (gpasswd -a <my username> cron), then as my regular |
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> user ran "crontab -e" and entered |
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> |
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> */5 * * * * /usr/bin/mutt |
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> myemail@mydomain -s 'test from user' |
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I just tried this (with the correct email address) and received nothing. |
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> Just to get it to email me every five minutes, which it is. I've also |
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> got an empty cron.deny with no cron.allow (and am also using vixie |
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> cron). I'm going to try to debug this with you, so just to throw a |
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> couple of things out there: |
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> 1) Are you editing the users crontab directly or are you using |
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> "crontab -e" ? Using the builtin crontab edit will catch errors which |
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> would prevent execution... |
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Yes, crontab -e. |
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> 2) Check your appropriate log file (I use sysklogd), so something |
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> like tail -f /var/log/syslog might reveal something of interest. |
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Nothing special, no errors and no sign of it running. You can see that |
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I edited the file though: |
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Mar 24 14:13:40 myserver crontab[12196]: (myuser) BEGIN EDIT (myuser) |
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Mar 24 14:14:04 myserver crontab[12196]: (myuser) REPLACE (myuser) |
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Mar 24 14:14:04 myserver crontab[12196]: (myuser) END EDIT (myuser) |
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Mar 24 14:15:01 myserver cron[3469]: (myuser) RELOAD (crontabs/myuser) |
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Tom Veldhouse |
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