CRON won't send mail anymore.
Lars Bungum
lars.bungum at copyleft.no
Thu Mar 25 10:22:17 PST 2004
Hi! My problem is that cron won't send out mail, anymore regardless of
what I set the MAILTO-variable to in my crontab. This worked as
expected before, but I can't remember what happend around the time it
stopped.
The system is FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE, and regular sending of mail like
"echo foo |mail lars at cl.no" works without problems. It's only cron that
appears not to supply the target email as specified in MAILTO.
What is wrong here? I don't really know how to debug this. Can
crontabs be executed verbosely somehow? I see I'm getting these errors
in /var/log/cron
--
/usr/sbin/cron[3940]: getting vmemoryuse resource limit: Invalid
argument
--
..might that be it?
An error message could look like this:
Subject:
Mail failure - no
recipient
addresses
Date:
Thu, 25 Mar 2004
03:30:06 +0100
A message that you sent contained no recipient addresses, and therefore
no
delivery could be attempted.
------ This is a copy of your message, including all the headers. ------
Received: from root by XX.XX.no with local (Exim 3.36 #1)
id 1B6KdB-000Eci-00; Thu, 25 Mar 2004 03:30:05 +0100
Message-Id: <E1B6KdB-000Eci-00 at XX.XX.no>
From: CronDaemon <root at XX.XX.no>
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 03:30:05 +0100
Thanks!
--
Mvh.
Lars Bungum <lb at cl.no> <OpenPGP: E2C5C0A2>
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