On 5/10/20 11:39 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-05-07 06:00, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I know I can edit the user crontab with:
crontab -e
and display it with
crontab -l
But where is it? I don't see anything like ~/.crontab
Secondly, and more importantly, is getting a email from the user crontab. I have in my crontab:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=rgm
And nothing gets mailed to /var/spool/mail/rgm
ls /var/spool/mail/ -ls
total 0
0 -rw-rw----. 1 rgm mail 0 May 5 17:21 rgm
0 -rw-rw----. 1 rpc mail 0 May 5 17:07 rpc
Do I need something like postfix with a minimal installation to get the output from my crontab?
Sorry to be "late to the party".
I did the following....
dnf install postfix
systemctl --now enable postfix
And now you are paying the memory, cpu, etc. cost of having postfix
running for something that a postprocessing MDA should/can do. Plus you
are showing that cron is not working "out of the box" as well as it
should without an MTA or a proper MDA.
My crontab....
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILTO=egreshko
37 * * * * /home/egreshko/bin/tippy
Contents of /home/egreshko/bin/tippy
[egreshko@f31k ~]$ cat bin/tippy
#!/bin/sh
echo HI
ls /tmp
And then you can see the time has past with...
[egreshko@f31k ~]$ date
Mon 11 May 2020 11:38:01 AM CST
And this showed up in local mailbox
[egreshko@f31k ~]$ cat /var/spool/mail/egreshko
From egreshko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mon May 11 11:37:01 2020
Return-Path: <egreshko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
X-Original-To: egreshko
Delivered-To: egreshko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: by f31k.greshko.com (Postfix, from userid 1026)
id 61824A7C95; Mon, 11 May 2020 11:37:01 +0800 (CST)
From: "(Cron Daemon)" <egreshko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: egreshko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Cron <egreshko@f31k> /home/egreshko/bin/tippy
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Precedence: bulk
X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_ID=34>
X-Cron-Env: <XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1026>
X-Cron-Env: <DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1026/bus>
X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_TYPE=unspecified>
X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_CLASS=background>
X-Cron-Env: <LANG=en_US.UTF-8>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=egreshko>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/egreshko>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=egreshko>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=egreshko>
Message-Id: <20200511033701.61824A7C95@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 11:37:01 +0800 (CST)
HI
sddm-:0-WDrvkF
sddm-auth43c5c6d5-ceb7-4e5b-b09f-abe5c864fba1
systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-chronyd.service-5olExh
systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-colord.service-759pOi
systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-dbus-broker.service-2c7ROg
systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-ModemManager.service-e8g5zi
systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-postfix.service-tkOnQf
systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-rtkit-daemon.service-vXKr2h
systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-systemd-logind.service-jmYKHf
systemd-private-a3fcb3cdd0024b53828446634851314a-upower.service-24SETg
Isn't that what you wanted?
Without the fun and games of an MTA. I could easily do this. I have
done this for past installs. This time I am trying to figure this out
without the MTA bandaid; an MDA like procmail SHOULD do this right. In
fact someone did part of the job by adding the "-f cron" option to procmail.
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