[lug] Cron problem

Ed Moxley ed at moxleynet.com
Fri Jun 18 08:17:20 MDT 2004


On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 01:53, Mark Sweitzer wrote:
>  
> I've been using Cron on a few Fedora-9 servers to run automated daily
> backups.
> For a few years, Crontab has been configured with the "mailto="
> command directed to an address in a domain not related to the
> respective host machines. (The hosts have retained the default
> "localhost" name, with no domain association.)
>  

Just in case, does the crontab actually have mailto= in lowercase?  It 
should be MAILTO=.  I've run into this problem often among my users.




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