cron notifications

[Lowell Gilbert]

Kevin Kinsey <kdk at daleco.biz> writes:

> Erald Troja wrote:
> 
> >I'm having issues getting cronjob notifications.
> >
> > probably a misconfig. i'm fairly new to freebsd, comming from a
> > linux platform.
> >
> >
> 
> <snip snip snip>
> 
> cron Just Works.  `crontab -l` lists your crontab file (basically
> just like you're running `cat` on the file.  `crontab -e` opens
> $EDITOR on the file.
> 
> Nothing new there, I'd think, from Linux.  You mention
> a web form ... are we sure it's implemented correctly?

That sounds right.  I believe that most, if not all, Linux
distributions use the same (Paul Vixie) cron that FreeBSD does.
Different versions, maybe.  The source of the mails is the right
question, I think.

> I guess the question I'd ask in return, (assuming I even
> found what yours was), is "do you get any mail from the
> system, ever?"

And the next question would be "can you get a simpler cron job to mail
output"?  I used "ls $HOME" as a job on my person crontab, with MAILTO
set to another machine, and the output showed up there as I expected.

Be well.