strange cron behavior
Gary Scott Erickson
erickson at glacier.ics.uci.edu
Wed Jan 4 10:36:37 AEST 1989
Machine: Sun 4/260
OS: 4.0
Problem: cron doesn't give the name of program executed when
mailing error messages.
I've got an entry in /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root that looks
like:
30 11 * * * /usr/local/etc/testerror
/usr/local/etc/testerror just echos "this is an error message"
When cron mail's the output to me, I get:
Your "cron" job
produced the following output:
this is an error message
when I should have gotten a message that looks like:
Your "cron" job
/usr/local/etc/testerror
produced the following output:
this is an error message
(at least this is the way our 386i mails output).
Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what was the fix?
Gary Erickson
University of California Irvine | (714) 856-4222
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