From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG  Wed Oct  5 11:27:46 2005
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 810BA16A41F
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed,  5 Oct 2005 11:27:46 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org)
Received: from mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net
	[69.17.117.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173E843D45
	for <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>; Wed,  5 Oct 2005 11:27:45 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org)
Received: (qmail 23585 invoked from network); 5 Oct 2005 11:27:45 -0000
Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org)
	([66.92.78.145])
	(envelope-sender <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org>)
	by mail27.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
	for <etroja@albunix.org>; 5 Oct 2005 11:27:45 -0000
Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147)
	id 9614727; Wed,  5 Oct 2005 07:27:44 -0400 (EDT)
Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org
To: Erald Troja <etroja@albunix.org>,  freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0510041359490.21547-100000@moon.albunix.org>
	<43436264.8040806@daleco.biz>
From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org>
Date: 05 Oct 2005 07:27:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: <43436264.8040806@daleco.biz>
Message-ID: <44y858p5jj.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
Lines: 34
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Cc: 
Subject: Re: cron notifications
X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code <freebsd-stable.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable>,
	<mailto:freebsd-stable-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:27:46 -0000

Kevin Kinsey <kdk@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.