[Klug-general] Cron job

[Stuart Brand]

No MTA running? telnet to localhost 25 or ps -ax | grep -i -e sendmail 

check in something like /var/log/mail.log and see if there are any errors

the usual problem investigation stuff ;) 


On Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at 04:14PM, "Nathan Friend" <nathan.friend at gmail.com> wrote:
>SUSE Enterprise 10.
>Oops maybe there is no MTA is running
>
>echo "test" | /usr/bin/mail -s "subject" root
>
>returned me to the prompt with no error, but enter 'mail' and get no mail
>for root
>
>
>On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Alan Buchel <
>alan at communitytechnology.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> Nathan Friend wrote:
>> > Took out the ; and added -b "Some text"  same result.  Also tried with
>> > no luck:
>> >
>> > echo "Moodle db backup failed" | /bin/mail -s "Moodle db backup failed"
>> root
>> >
>> > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk
>> > <mailto:mike at tandem.f9.co.uk>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     oh and further to my earlier - you need a body of the mail - is that
>> >     what the ; is attempting to terminate?  Not sure it will
>> >
>>
>> which distro?
>>
>> Test any command first outside the script, for instance get this working
>> before incorporating into script.
>>
>> echo "body" | /usr/bin/mail -s "subject" root
>>
>> make sure some sort of MTA is running on that system - sendmail is
>> simple or postfix which will need a little config.
>>
>>
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