From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GNz5J-0007hw-KY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:49:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8ELmA8A022620; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:48:10 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8ELhYZc018113 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:43:34 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3575644C0 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:43:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 20927-04 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:43:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.174]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22BD643C5 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id h2so186918ugf for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:43:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=eygr9rYhpyHD/GrufXcLHdc1bYzgdzq4uaivXD5yD+R5HuofEd6ChaZOK2n2TODYt9d/GuI8l4/ek0kxL7hXNaMRUuYEIWwEkGG4+l2tOVFQqqXJjOmmH09Ac7iAFR2SxtFOHgpe6EOvIa9F3wwsAwMYdSE/E/V4veIltd35UGM= Received: by 10.67.97.7 with SMTP id z7mr5072014ugl; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.245.16 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:43:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 14:43:30 -0700 From: "David Grant" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] vixie-cron and ssmtp Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_204163_2539471.1158270210775" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.21 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.173, BAYES_00=-2.599, DNS_FROM_RFC_ABUSE=0.2, DRUGS_SLEEP=0.01, HTML_10_20=1.351, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001] X-Spam-Score: -1.21 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 0ee9bac2-037b-4db9-92c5-421090b9de03 X-Archives-Hash: 38939758b83fc7d9228883e40261e9e4 ------=_Part_204163_2539471.1158270210775 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cron is sending out an email for jobs run as user root, but not for cron jobs run as my normal user? Yet the funny thing is, when cron runs jobs as normal user, it still actually sends the mail to root (see /etc/crontab). And on the command line, I see the same thing either way: Sep 14 14:43:01 sonata cron[16727]: (david) CMD (/home/david/scripts/encryptPass.pl) Sep 14 14:43:01 sonata cron[16725]: (root) CMD (/home/david/scripts/encryptPass.pl) Sep 14 14:43:02 sonata sSMTP[16728]: Sent mail for root@smtp.vc.shawcable.net (221 2.3.0 Bye received. Goodbye.) Sep 14 14:43:02 sonata sSMTP[16729]: Sent mail for root@smtp.vc.shawcable.net (221 2.3.0 Bye received. Goodbye.) Can anyone else repeat this behaviour? -- David Grant http://www.davidgrant.ca ------=_Part_204163_2539471.1158270210775 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cron is sending out an email for jobs run as user root, but not for cron jobs run as my normal user? Yet the funny thing is, when cron runs jobs as normal user, it still actually sends the mail to root (see /etc/crontab). And on the command line, I see the same thing either way:

Sep 14 14:43:01 sonata cron[16727]: (david) CMD (/home/david/scripts/encryptPass.pl)
Sep 14 14:43:01 sonata cron[16725]: (root) CMD (/home/david/scripts/encryptPass.pl)
Sep 14 14:43:02 sonata sSMTP[16728]: Sent mail for root@smtp.vc.shawcable.net (221 2.3.0 Bye received. Goodbye.)
Sep 14 14:43:02 sonata sSMTP[16729]: Sent mail for root@smtp.vc.shawcable.net (221 2.3.0 Bye received. Goodbye.)

Can anyone else repeat this behaviour?

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David Grant
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