Cron emails

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
>> These past few days, it seems my FC7 box (also my mail/http server) have
>> stopped sending me emails from crontab scripts that run.  For instance I
>> don't get my nightly epylogs, nor from any of my crond scripts that I
>> have in the cron.x directories.  I ran my epylog one manually and it got
>> sent.  So it's not like it won't do it at all, just not on it's own.
>> Maybe the scripts aren't getting ran?  As in cron is broke or something?
>> I didn't do anything to the box myself, as it only gets updates from
>> updates and testing but that's it.  No other programs have been added or
>> removed.
>> Just wondering if a recent update may have contributed as I cdan't
>> remember the last one.
> 
> This was discussed on the list a few days back (31st August). It seems a 
> change to /usr/bin/run-parts in the crontab-1.10-15 update is the culprit.
> A bugzilla entry[1] was mentioned too.
> Hope this helps.

And it has been fixed in the latest batch of updates. :-)

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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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