debian9 box's not getting email notifications at /var/mail/username

cwc · 05-10-2018, 06:31 AM

We are running an array of crontab processes in an experimatal lab (school)

I do not understand why we are not getting email notifications when a crontab's errors or are successful.

I have a redhat server running and by default I get a notification when a crontab is processed at /var/mail/username

How do I enable this on our debian9 boxes?

Example out on Redhat box:

Code:

Message-Id: <20180508141503.73205C0003A8C@t********.org>
Date: Tue,  8 May 2018 07:15:03 -0700 (PDT)

>From https://github.com/t****/********
   091ea56..947efc5  master     -> origin/master
Updating 091ea56..947efc5
Fast-forward
 documentation/linux/command-line/pingsweep-arp.txt | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 documentation/linux/command-line/pingsweep-arp.txt

bathory · 05-12-2018, 07:50 AM

Quote:

How do I enable this on our debian9 boxes?

You need to configure and enable a maiserver.
According to this, the default MTA for debian is exim, so if you want to use mail, you need to configure and then start the exim4 service.
FYI, if you want, you can replace exim with postfix, if you are more familiar with it.

Regards

cwc · 05-23-2018, 04:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

You need to configure and enable a maiserver.
According to this, the default MTA for debian is exim, so if you want to use mail, you need to configure and then start the exim4 service.
FYI, if you want, you can replace exim with postfix, if you are more familiar with it.

Regards

thank you!

AwesomeMachine · 05-23-2018, 06:41 PM

Exim is usually enabled by default on Debian. But success with cron jobs is not reported by email, only errors.