Cron emails

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.com
Wed Sep 5 02:42:58 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 03:43 +0530, Vivek J. Patankar wrote:
> 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. :-)

Yep, not sure if fixed yet but got the update installed.

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Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

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