No mail from cron on Feisty

[D. Michael McIntyre]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Do you have the package mailx or mailutils installed? On Kubuntu/Feisty it
> isn't installed by default.

I do now.

Progress, sort of:

Cron <mail at me> if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb ]; 
then /usr/sbin/exim_tidydb /var/spool/exim retry >/dev/null; fi
From: 
Cron Daemon <root at me>
  To: 
mail at me
  Date: 
Today 6:13:01 am
   
failed to open database lock file /var/spool/exim/db/retry.lockfile: No such 
file or directory

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre