Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:23:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com> To: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fixed (Cron fails. Error in /var/log/maillog: No recipient) Message-ID: <20050701151816.H4101@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <20050629221944.V54615@zoraida.natserv.net> References: <20050629221944.V54615@zoraida.natserv.net>
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Francisco Reyes wrote: For the archives. Problem was crontab failing. first thing I noticed was > postfix/sendmail[36590]: fatal: > No recipient addresses found in message > header In /var/log/maillog Then someone suggested to look at /var/log/cron There I saw errors like NSSWITCH(nss_method_lookup): nis, passwd_compat, endpwent, not found Some digging and found that if one takes off NIS from the system one needs to change /etc/nsswitch.conf to group: files hosts: files dns networks: files passwd: files shells: files That solved the problem. However, I find it very interesting that cron fails if it can not send out an email.
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