Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:19:11 -0400 From: John Hood <jh@sandstorm.net> To: John Hood <jh@sirocco.sandstorm.net>, cgull@glup.org, ni@sirocco.sandstorm.net Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crond fails quietly if /usr/sbin/sendmail is missing Message-ID: <20060915011911.GB46136@sandstorm.net> In-Reply-To: <200605082351.k48Np5fX012137@sirocco.sandstorm.net> References: <200605082351.k48Np5fX012137@sirocco.sandstorm.net>
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On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 07:51:05PM -0400, John Hood wrote: > >Description: > > If cron's job-running child fails to exec /usr/sbin/sendmail and the > cron job writes to stdout, hijinks ensue I reported this cron bug a while ago. Anybody? Anybody? ISTR the cron job will get SIGPIPE on any failure of sendmail that causes its pipe to close early, not just failure-to-exec. --jh
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