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[Anders Norrbring <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Per Jessen skrev:
> Anders Norrbring wrote:
>
> > I have the exact same problem. And both cron and postfix are up and
> > running. Testing sending a mail to root via sendmail works just fine.
> > But nothing whatsoever from cron.
> > In fact, in /var/log/messages there aren't any entries from cron
> > besides
> >   the startup, Nov 13 19:49:50 beata /usr/sbin/cron[3776]: (CRON)
> > STARTUP (V5.0).
> > I'm running 11.1, and I would expect the update script to be run every
> > day, but apparently not.. I have to look into this more.
>
> On a freshly installed 11.2 system, I've just gone through this:
>
> as user 'per': 
>
> crontab -e  (entry='* * * * * echo klop')
>
> After a couple of minutes, from /var/log/messages
>
> Nov 16 19:42:01 guest50 /usr/sbin/cron[4668]: (per) CMD (echo klop)
> Nov 16 19:43:01 guest50 /usr/sbin/cron[4693]: (per) CMD (echo klop)
> Nov 16 19:44:01 guest50 /usr/sbin/cron[4749]: (per) CMD (echo klop)
>
> And from /var/log/mail:
>
> Nov 16 19:42:01 guest50 postfix/qmgr[3121]: D990C92CC:
> from=<per@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=464, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Nov 16 19:42:02 guest50 postfix/local[4679]: D990C92CC:
> to=<per@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, orig_to=<per>, relay=local, delay=0.45,
> delays=0.24/0.08/0/0.13, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
> Nov 16 19:43:01 guest50 postfix/pickup[4424]: CBCA8B050: uid=1000
> from=<per>
> Nov 16 19:43:01 guest50 postfix/cleanup[4676]: CBCA8B050:
> message-id=<20091116184301.CBCA8B050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Nov 16 19:43:01 guest50 postfix/qmgr[3121]: CBCA8B050:
> from=<per@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, size=464, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Nov 16 19:43:01 guest50 postfix/local[4679]: CBCA8B050:
> to=<per@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, orig_to=<per>, relay=local, delay=0.14,
> delays=0.06/0/0/0.08, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered to maildir)
>
> So, cron is running, and the mail is being generated and sent. 
> Nonetheless, when I check the local mail for 'per' using 'mail', there
> isn't any ....
> Still, when checking '/home/per/Maildir' :
>
> ls -1 /home/per/Maildir/new/
> 1258396922.V902I100fM51598.guest50
> 1258396981.V902I1012M855705.guest50
> 1258397041.V902I1013M920533.guest50
> 1258397102.V902I1014M63284.guest50
> 1258397161.V902I1015M128741.guest50
> 1258397221.V902I1016M299739.guest50
> 1258397281.V902I1017M329716.guest50
>
> I think the problem is in /etc/postfix/main.cf which has the following:
>
> home_mailbox = Maildir/
>
> Comment that out, reload postfix, and you'll see the old, familiar:
>
> > mail
> Heirloom mailx version 12.2 01/07/07.  Type ? for help.
> "/var/spool/mail/per": 1 message 1 new
> > N  1 per@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Nov 16 19:53   19/598   Cron <per@guest50>
> echo klop
> ?
>
> Note - I don't know why "home_mailbox = Maildir/" was used, so
> commenting it out might well screw up something else.
>
> /Per


Are you sure Per?
beata:~ # crontab -e (entry='* * * * * echo test')
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('


Anders.


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