Anacron - revisited

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Chris wrote:
> I'm puzzled folks - when anacron runs it's jobs, are there supposed to
> be email reports? Case in point - if I create a script to run in
> /etc/cron.daily under say CentOS - There is an email sent to root when
> that script is complete (example, if I echo the time of start and
> completion).
> 
> If not - is there something that can be turned on to allow the reports
> to be sent to root (or any other login provided the alias files says so)
> 
> If it does though - it seems mine is not working. So I could use a bit
> of help in where it borked.
> 
> Again, and as usual - TIA.

    As far as I know, this is one of the longest-running standards of
Unix and Linux; I don't remember hearing of any choice, or mechanism to
mute the cron jobs- it's just too important.

    Probably the question to ask is, where does root's mail go?  A lot
of times, on a new install it goes to a local folder. Try:

    echo "My at real.address.com" > $HOME/.forward

    and then sudo to root and "echo "Test mail" | mail root" to see just
where it goes.

    I'll bet it's collecting somewhere.  You can read your local
mailboxes with "mail"- good place to start.


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