From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 21 06:29:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C0216A4DF for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:29:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from th.lacoste@wanadoo.fr) Received: from smtp18.orange.fr (smtp18.orange.fr [193.252.22.126]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E5E43D49 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:29:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from th.lacoste@wanadoo.fr) Received: from smtp18.orange.fr (mwinf1805 [172.22.149.27]) by mwinf1810.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 7378C1C01FD0 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:29:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp-msa-out18.orange.fr (mwinf1807 [172.22.149.37]) by mwinf1805.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 6F5F77000081 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:29:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from aldebaran (ASte-Genev-Bois-151-1-19-198.w83-114.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.114.17.198]) by mwinf1807.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with SMTP id BCB327000085 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:29:16 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20060721062916772.BCB327000085@mwinf1807.orange.fr Message-ID: <008401c6ac8e$fcc61010$0201a8c0@aldebaran> From: "Thierry Lacoste" To: Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:29:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 Subject: /etc/crontab and mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 06:29:20 -0000 I have two boxes running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. AFAICS their configuration is identical. On both machines, I put at the end of /etc/crontab: 14 8 * * * root echo test On one machine root receives a mail with "test" as the boby of the message while on the other machine I have no mail. Here are the relevant entries in /var/log/maillog: Jul 21 08:14:00 pollux sendmail[61144]: k6L6E0l1061144: from=root, size=236, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200607210614.k6L6E0l1061144@pollux.miage.univ-paris12.fr>, relay=root@localhost Jul 21 08:14:00 castor sendmail[11872]: k6L6F0mP011872: from=root, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, msgid=<200607210615.k6L6F0mP011872@castor.miage.univ-paris12.fr>, relay=root@localhost I'm really confused. Can someone shed some light? Regards, Thierry.