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Subject: Re: Crontab behavior in AMD64
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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

>> I am still trying to figure it out. What I find disconcerting is that it
>> seems the cron job fails because the email fails.
>
>    What exactly does crond feed into the sendmail? You can quite easily
>    find out by putting a suitable script in /etc/mail/mailer.conf.
>    Something that writes "$@" and its STDIN in a file will do.

Already found the problem.. posted to this list.
It had to do with a file called /etc/nsswitch.conf and not having NIS 
anymore in the machine.

will post full story on questions for the archives.. but basically if one 
compiles without NIS one needs to change /etc/nsswitch.conf