Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:31:57 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: George Reid <greid@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: odd messages from cron jobs Message-ID: <3B8EDAFD.14373.2E0D86CF@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010830224901.A79203@FreeBSD.org> References: <3B8DF1F6.15579.2A7F8A5A@localhost>; from dan@langille.org on Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:57:42AM -0400
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On 30 Aug 2001, at 22:49, George Reid wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:57:42AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > This morning, I found these waiting in my mailbox. I have a feeling > > I've found up pasting something where it shouldn't been pasted... > > > > Subject: Cron <root@ns1> /home/backups/backup.sh 2>&1 | > > mail -s "torix backup" root > > > > you: not found > > That'll be part of the output of /home/backups/backup.sh; that's where you > need to be looking. Without seeing the script it's impossible to do > anything other than guess. Perhaps something isn't handling filenames > with spaces in them correctly or something? Found and solved.... $ mail /usr/bin/mail: you: command not found $ file /usr/bin/mail /usr/bin/mail: ASCII text Hmmmm, OK, lovely.... I guess I did that... time to recompile. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited FreshPorts - http://freshports.org/ - the place for ports To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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