Issue with cron mailing results

OneBinary · 01-02-2006, 06:01 PM

Hey All,

It appears that I am no longer able to receive system messages, such as those created by a cron job. I created a very simple cron job that echo's a string, which should automatically send me an email with the output of that cron, but I am finding the following in my syslog:

Code:

Jan  2 15:59:01 www /USR/SBIN/CRON[17426]: (root) CMD (echo "hello world")
Jan  2 15:59:01 www /USR/SBIN/CRON[17425]: (root) MAIL (mailed 12 bytes of output but got status 0x00f4 )

Any idea why that is? I did a google search but didn't find anything for "status 0x004f". What should I check?

Artanicus · 01-02-2006, 06:56 PM

well first you should try to mail yourself via the cli with something like nail.. You might get a better error and the delivery system should be the same.

OneBinary · 01-02-2006, 07:11 PM

Would you mind explaining how I would test that?

blujay · 01-02-2006, 08:12 PM

apt-cache search nail
apt-get install nail
man nail

That should get you started.

OneBinary · 01-02-2006, 10:30 PM

Oh my bad, I thought that was a typo (thought nail was mail)

Thanks I'll play around with that and see how things go.