On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 08:03:55PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: > On Mon, 2014-04-14 at 20:25 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > [mark@Zaphod]$ send-mail: account default not found: no configuration file available > > > > It looks like this is the crux of your problem. I presume you checked > > mary gets mails for her cron jobs? > > Well I think we're narrowing down the problem here. The answer to that > question is NO! > And interestingly NEITHER DOES ROOT! This is strange. > > It seems that fixing /etc/aliases now allows me to get SYSTEM messages > (e.g. logwatch, fail2ban stops/starts etc.) but NOT cron output. > > So the problem seems to be that cron is somehow not configured to send > mail. Could that be right? If so, where do I start in trying to fix > it? I find this very surprising. Can you try adding a line like this on top of your crontab: MAILTO=<username> > > That said, I do not know enough about system mail to point you to > > possible sources of your problem, however I would start by running mail > > with the verbose flag. > > How do I do that? Just call mail with -v in your test: $ mail -v mary Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
