cron not sending emails

[Laszlo Nagy]

Chuck Swiger írta:
> Hi--
>
> On May 28, 2010, at 4:42 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> These do not correspond.  
I can assure you, that the maillog DOES correspond to the cron job. E.g. 
if I add two jobs for the same point in time, then two new lines will 
appear in the maillog, at exactly the given time. If I remove them, then 
no line will show up etc.


> It seems to think that the crontab is for uid 1001, but it can't seem to lookup a passwd entry for that uid:
>
>   
>> log_it: (tmp.27734 92380) ORPHAN (no passwd entry)
>>     
>
>   
Well, actually it is not just user=1001. Many users have crontabs on 
this system. I cannot tell which one is orphaned. (Maybe munin? That was 
removed recently from the system...) Actually, user 1001 does have a 
password entry. So do others, and their crontabs are working. Programs 
are started by cron, but their output is lost.

L