On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Daniel Jarboe wrote:
>> Apparently cron's running. How do I make sure it's working though?
>>
> Typically there is some message written to /var/log/messages whenever
> crond runs a command. It also might be worth checking your maillog.
root@pc:~# grep -i cron /var/log/{messages,mail.log}
root@pc:~#
Nope.
> Do you have MAILTO= set correctly in your crontab?
No. Oddly, it's worked in the past. Even if not, mail should go to the
crontab's owner, yes?
I did find that the crontab didn't have a NL at the end (cron used some
editor that looked like mc's internal one). export EDITOR=vim and it's
fixed. I'll see tomorrow whether that was it.
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