[Nottingham] Perl (...) -> Backup and sendmail problems

[Graeme Fowler]

Hi

On 10 Sep 2004, at 10:06, Johannes Kling wrote:
>> Sep  1 02:54:00 **** CROND[28109]: (root) CMD (/etc/backup.cron)
>> Sep  1 02:54:00 **** CROND[28108]: (root) MAIL (mailed 80 bytes of 
>> output but got status 0x0047 )
>
> Cron will send you a mail if one of its jobs doesn't exit properly
> (or, I believe, when it produces output to STDERR). This is exactly
> what the log shows.

http://www.mailarchive.ca/lists/comp.mail.sendmail/2003-04/0546.html

might be a help - there are two separate issues here, one with the cron 
job itself and one with the cron daemon failing to invoke sendmail 
correctly.

Graeme