Script run by crontab won't send email

Braynid · 12-20-2007, 05:53 AM

Hello,

What I want to do is to run a script every 5 min. let's say. What the script actually does is to ping some hosts and if the host does not reply send an email to me.

If i just run the script "/usr/bin/script" it works perfectly. The script is 777 chmod-ed.

I've added in crontab something like:

Code:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/netpoint_mon

also I've tried:

Code:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/netpoint_mon 2>&1

But it doesn't send any mail like this.
Also I've tried (with no result):

Code:

* * * * * /usr/bin/netpoint_mon
* * * * * /usr/bin/netpoint_mon 2>&1

Also the scripts generates some logs. With the line:

Code:

*/5 * * * * /usr/bin/netpoint_mon

new entries are added to the log files but no mail is sent. In addition to that if I do a "sendmail -bp" i get "-- 3696 Kbytes in 588 Requests."

All of the requests look something like this:

Code:

87ED07A489D     6952 Wed Dec 19 20:40:11  user@host.com
(delivery temporarily suspended: connect to mail.rdsnet.ro[193.231.236.16](This is my smtp): Connection timed out)
                                         user@host.com

it says "Connection timed out" but if i run the script manually it sends all the emails as expected.

What am I doing wrong ? Thanks.

jailbait · 12-21-2007, 12:16 AM

The problem is probably in the script. Check the script to make sure that all commands use the full path name for the command.

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Steve Stites