Bug 61508

Summary: cron pretends to run jobs
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Michal Jaegermann <michal>
Component: vixie-cronAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Beth Uptagrafft <bhu>
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2002-03-20 21:13:12 UTC 
Description of Problem:
In a fit of a desperation after various attempts to find out why cron
does not run my jobs I ended up with the following script in
/usr/local/sbin/try_this

#! /bin/sh

data=$(
echo ======
/bin/date
echo ======
)

echo "Subject: try this
$data" | /usr/sbin/sendmail root

It does not matter if I installed that with 'crontab -e' or by directly
editing /etc/crontab to execute every minute no mail was forthcoming.
/var/log/cron has all entries of 
"CROND[30595]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/sbin/try_this)" sort every minute
but nothing happens.

After reinstalling vixie-cron from the previous beta (ostensibly the same
version) cron started to work once again and I have lots of mail.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
vixie-cron-3.0.1-63
Comment 1 Beth Uptagrafft 2002-04-19 20:16:46 UTC 
This will be fixed in the next delivery.