Crontab behavior in AMD64

JM jmartin37 at speakeasy.net
Fri Jul 1 16:33:48 GMT 2005


Francisco Reyes wrote:

> Is there a difference in the behavior of crontab in AMD64 vs i386?
>
> I have a crontab
> 14 22 * * * /usr/home/hank/bin/tozoraida.sh
>
> which is not running
> When I try to research the problem the only thing I see is an error in 
> maillog
> postfix/sendmail[36590]: fatal:
> No recipient addresses found in message
> header
>
> Have setup user crontab on several other machines without problems, 
> but they were all i386.
>
> Archives came up empty so don't know if this is an issue with the 
> AMD64 branch or something else.

i know it seems simple but make sure your script has +x permissions. a 
lot of times i've forgotten to do this and overlooking this sometimes 
causes me some headaches. it's one of those things you forget and slap 
yourself about later.


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