On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 11:21:11AM -0600, ghe wrote: > > Cron jobs (some of them) don't show up in root's email.
Which MTA are you using, and how did you configure its behavior for mail addressed to "root"? Some MTAs will deliver literally to root's inbox (/var/mail/root or some other place). Others will refuse to deliver to root, and will insist that you alias root to an unprivileged user. It's extremely possible that you've already aliased root to some other user, and have forgotten that you did this. Thus, you're looking in the wrong place. What happens if you run "echo test | mailx root"? Where does the mail go in that case? Mail from cron follows an almost identical delivery path, so you can use this to test the basic MTA functionality before bringing cron into the picture.