Reini Urban <rurban <at> x-ray.at> writes: > > 2008/7/20 r: > > I've a problem with cron, it does not send email > > when the job is done. > > Very good! I'm seeing improvement following > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Netiquette > Esp. "Mail should have a subject heading which reflects the content of > the message."
??? Subject : cron jobs and email " I've a problem with cron, it does not send email when the job is done. " where is the mismatch ??????? > Also "cron & mail"? yes "cron & mail" too, and I followed all the directions > > MAILTO=Proprietario > This should be a valid email address? yes, it is my login account under winxp > Try sending the email on the commandline to this address. cron does it > as your local user or as user SYSTEM, dependent of how you installed > your cron service. the correct address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried with "email" program and it send emails to this account correctly > cron just uses the /usr/bin/sendmail symlink. > Check your eventlog for cron errors. as I told /var/log/cron.log is empty the result of " cronevents " is 2008/07/20 22:36:33 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) BEGIN EDIT (Proprietario) 2008/07/20 22:36:49 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) REPLACE (Proprietario) 2008/07/20 22:36:49 [Proprietario] crontab: PID 3184: (Proprietario) END EDIT (Proprietario) 2008/07/20 22:37:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 440: (Proprietario) RELOAD (tabs/Proprietario) 2008/07/20 22:38:01 [SYSTEM] /usr/sbin/cron: PID 3752: (Proprietario) CMD (/bin/prova.sh) > Maybe another RFC will help, SMTP http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html What are you speaking about, I think I'm able to managed basic rules about smtp. Thank'you -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/