Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 16:00:39 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: APseudoUtopia <apseudoutopia@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@shopzeus.com> Subject: Re: cron not sending emails Message-ID: <20100601140039.GA8168@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilCQ9WYKWUyQ7S3CBvycpwpPhUC6czDh3CA0bJz@mail.gmail.com> References: <4BFFAC35.2040503@shopzeus.com> <AANLkTilCQ9WYKWUyQ7S3CBvycpwpPhUC6czDh3CA0bJz@mail.gmail.com>
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El día Tuesday, June 01, 2010 a las 09:41:11AM -0400, APseudoUtopia escribió: > 2010/5/28 Laszlo Nagy <gandalf@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@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@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@current.unixarea.de>, ctladdr=<root@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 -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the zionistic pirates of Israel? Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con los piratas sionistas de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre!
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