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How to get a daily report of the exit codes of cron jobs
I have a few dozen cron jobs, which run every day, for backups.
I don't want to receive an email for only failed jobs, as I won't know when the email fails.
I don't want to receive an email for every ...
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Cron job with `echo` sends e-mail instead of printing to terminal
I am new to Unix, learning how to schedule a job. Starting with a simple command like
* * * * * echo 'hello'
on vim. However I do not get the standard output at the start of every minute, instead ...
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File is not readable when script is called by cron
This really has me scratching my head. I have a PERL script on a RHEL 7 server that creates an xlsx file via MIME::Lite and emails it to several people. If I run the script from the command line it ...
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crontab error - SSMTP - 553 5.7.1 Sender address rejected: not owned by user
As root, I installed ssmtp and I configured the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf as follows:
# Sender email address
[email protected]
# Destination SMTP server and port
mailhub=mail.domain.com:587
# ...
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What process is generating dead.letter?
I'm using linux:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS
Release: 18.04
Codename: bionic
I noticed a few weeks ago that there is a file in my home directory: dead....
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Getting Cron Daemon emails, but no user has crontab
Users on a server of mine are getting mails in /var/spool/mail from Cron Daemon runs but when I check the user's crontab there is nothing there?
From [email protected] Tue Nov 2 15:00:12 ...
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How to set cron email From field
All my cron emails are sent to spam by gmail, which is not something I want. One of the thing that might put gmail off is that the raw email shows From: root (Cron Daemon).
In the crontab I have both ...
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Redirect Standard and Error Output to Append a file, and email truncated results
I have a crontab that looks something like this:
0 8 * * * command >> mylog.log 2>&1
This appends both errors and standard output into mylog.log.
In addition to what's above, I want to ...
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Do we have to rewrite the MAILTO after each cron command?
As we know that MAILTO is used for receiving any mail related to the Cron job. In my case I have three commands to execute, do I need to add MAILTO three times even if the receiver mail id is the same ...
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replace MTA with something not email related
What I try to achieve is to send all my server logs, errors, crontab outputs etc. with something like telegram or signal. I am locking for a MTA with can handle a different backend and is still ...
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Prevent cronjob's from writing to /var/mail/$USER?
In macOS, cronjobs configured with crontab have the command output and/or error messages (if the cron doesn't succeed) written to the /var/mail/$USER file. Can this be prevented? I've tried:
* * * * *...
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CRON (no tty): Delete message with specific "Message-Id"
I have a situation where I need to delete from mailbox (eg. /var/mail/root) messages with specific Message-Id.
Following code works only from console, but I have to do it without user interaction ...
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Modify subject line of cronjob
I have the following one-line cron command set up which gives me a nice simple message in the body of the email upon backup complete (thanks to @steeldriver).
tar -cpzf /home/user/backups/...
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Why does cron require MTA for logging?
Why does cron require MTA for logging? Is there any particular advantage to this? Why can't it create a log file like most other utilities?
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Why cron doesn't stop sending emails even redirecting to /dev/null
I have some cron tasks, and some of them doesn't stop sending me emails.
An example task are:
*/2 * * * * php app/console mautic:email:fetch > /dev/null 2>&1
(All ...
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