Re: [gentoo-user] cron and ssmtp

["Ricardo Saffi Marques" <saffi@las.ic.unicamp.br>]

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I think it's not a group issue. I put myself at cron and crontab groups,
just in case. If it was a group thing, you wouldn't even be able to "crontab
-e".
I edit my cron table using: "crontab -e" (no extra parameters needed). Check
it out by "crontab -l". For root, I do the same.

Regards,

Saffi

On 1/22/08, Michael Higgins <linux@evolone.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:48:05 +0000
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:36:46 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote:
> >
> > > Is anyone using cron (vixie-cron) without a real MTA and getting
> > > emails? The test is simple, just "echo hello world". I expect this
> > > to come as an email to the address I put in MAILTO="". But it
> > > doesn't.
> >
> > It works on several boxes here. Is ssmtp working correctly? Try
> >
> > echo -e "To: Me\nSubject: ssmtp test\n\nssmtp test" | /usr/sbin/ssmtp
> > youraddress
> >
> > If it fails, check /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf, particularly the mailhub
> > setting.
>
> No fail. Worked like a charm...
>
> I edit my crontab like sudo crontab -u mykhyggz -e
>
> At the top, is MAILTO="email@isp.com"
>
> My user belongs to cron group: groups
> wheel cron users mykhyggz
>
> Cron is running: top bn1|grep cron
> 5068 root      18   0  3072  692  552 S  0.0  0.7   0:00.00 cron
>
> 15        08      *              *       *            echo hello world
>
> should have sent me an email with 'hello world' in the body at 8:15, or
> so I believe, but didn't.
>
> What else can I check?
>
> Cheers,
>
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Ricardo Saffi Marques
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