How do I get a cron job to work?

socceroos · 03-23-2006, 12:03 AM

Hello Everyone,

I have the cron job:

* * * * * sendmail my@email.com < /root/email.txt

But it won't actually send the email.

I have tested sendmail - there is no problems there.

I have tested a simple cron job like this:

* * * * * echo hello >> /root/test.txt

And the above cron job works.

Does anyone know why I can't get the crontab job to send emails??

Thankyou!

kencaz · 03-23-2006, 12:27 AM

I believe you need the full path to application run in crontab... so you need to supply crontab with the full path to sendmail application...

KC

socceroos · 03-23-2006, 04:22 PM

Yep that was it.

Thankyou very much.