On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Rick Macdonald wrote: > > > > Lawrence Chim wrote: > > > > > > I don't know why cron always send mail to root with the following > > > body. Any idea? > > > > > > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts /etc/cron.daily > > > getopt: illegal option -- o > > > > You might want to post the file "/etc/cron.daily" so we can see > > what the problem is. > > Here is the files in /etc/cron.daily. Sorry if it is too many.
The man page for savelog doesn't show any "-o". My script has "-u root", not "-o root". Here's yours: set -e cd /var/log/smail savelog -o root -g mail -m 644 -c 7 logfile paniclog >/dev/null ...RickM... -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.