Anders Johansson wrote: > On Saturday 22 December 2007 15:42:47 Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> * Donald D Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [12-22-07 04:40]: >>> Hmmm. Something magic must have happened. The cron job ran and the >>> backup was updated. The only thing I changed was to set >>> SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR to Yes. (By the way, where does that mail get >>> sent?)I don't understand *why* it worked but it did work. >> SEND_MAIL_ON_NO_ERROR merely sets cron to report "successful" activity >> to root. It did nothing to your cron job. > > It does nothing whatsoever for regular cronjobs. It is a variable read by > run-crons, and only sends email for cron jobs in /etc/cron.hourly, cron.daily > or cron.weekly > > Anders > Thanks, everyone. My backup is working so I'd like to leave it as is for now.
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