cron not sending emails
Matthias Apitz
guru at unixarea.de
Tue Jun 1 14:00:43 UTC 2010
El día Tuesday, June 01, 2010 a las 09:41:11AM -0400, APseudoUtopia escribió:
> 2010/5/28 Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com>:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > After upgrading to 8.0 RELEASE, I'm not getting any emails from cron.
> >
> > If I put this into root's crontab
> >
> > * * * * * echo "TEST"
> >
> > then I see this in the maillog:
> >
> > May 14 10:53:00 server postfix/sendmail[2958]: fatal: user(1001): No
> > recipient addresses found in message header
> >
> >
>
> Just as a side note, I started having this problem a while ago with
> 7.2-RELEASE, I believe. I was using the base-system sendmail and no
> special configuration with cron or anything.
>
> I never found a solution. I posted on this mailing list and nothing
> anyone suggested solved it. I ended up just piping every single cron
> command into /usr/bin/mail:
>
> 0 */4 * * * root /usr/local/backups/daily_backup.sh |
> /usr/bin/mail -E -s "Daily Backup" email at address.tld
>
> That works fine.
current# uname -a
FreeBSD current.unixarea.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Sun Jan 10 09:55:14 CET 2010 guru at current.unixarea.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
current# crontab -l | fgrep 15
56 15 * * * /usr/sbin/ntpdate -b ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de
current# tail -3 /var/log/cron
Jun 1 15:56:00 current /usr/sbin/cron[1509]: (root) RELOAD (tabs/root)
Jun 1 15:56:00 current /usr/sbin/cron[8209]: (root) CMD (/usr/sbin/ntpdate -b ntps1-0.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Jun 1 15:57:17 current crontab[8220]: (root) LIST (root)
current# tail /var/log/maillog
Jun 1 15:56:01 current sm-mta[8213]: o51Du1q1008212: to=<root at current.unixarea.de>, ctladdr=<root at current.unixarea.de> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30877, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
i.e. no problem on my system;
matthias
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