since F20 update, cron has stopped sending mail

Frank Murphy frankly3d at gmail.com
Fri Jan 3 16:01:21 UTC 2014


On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 09:13:37 -0600
Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> wrote:

> With F19, I got email from cron on all jobs that produced output.  I
> no longer get those mails after upgrading to F20. I have verified
> that the jobs are run.  There are no entries in /var/log/maillog for
> them.  Other system tasks, not run through cron, send their emails as
> usual.
> 
> crontab has a "Mail to" line in it:
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> 
> Any idea what I need to do to get my cron email restored?
> 

edit /etc/sysconfig/crond
Try adding : CRONDARGS=-m/usr/sbin/sendmail -t
see if that helps



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Frank 
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