Cron emails

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> These past few days, it seems my FC7 box (also my mail/http server) have
> stopped sending me emails from crontab scripts that run.  For instance I
> don't get my nightly epylogs, nor from any of my crond scripts that I
> have in the cron.x directories.  I ran my epylog one manually and it got
> sent.  So it's not like it won't do it at all, just not on it's own.
> Maybe the scripts aren't getting ran?  As in cron is broke or something?
> I didn't do anything to the box myself, as it only gets updates from
> updates and testing but that's it.  No other programs have been added or
> removed.
> Just wondering if a recent update may have contributed as I cdan't
> remember the last one.

This was discussed on the list a few days back (31st August). It seems a 
change to /usr/bin/run-parts in the crontab-1.10-15 update is the culprit.
A bugzilla entry[1] was mentioned too.
Hope this helps.

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=269961

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विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)

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