On Friday 01 Jan 2010 12:10:50 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2010-01-01 at 11:50 -0000, Bob Williams wrote:
Hi Per and Carlos,
Happy New Year :)
Same to you.
I'm watching on TV the Vienna philarmonica new year concert, but I missed the first hour. I always think it starts at twelve, but it does at 11:00 +0100. Almost every year I'm catched this way. Sigh.
On Friday 01 Jan 2010 11:25:16 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Friday, 2010-01-01 at 11:34 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
you can either stop the cron job or set MAILTO=<blank> (in cron.d/xxxx) to stop getting those mails. What is the purpose of the cron job?
My guess it is just a forgotten test job :-)
I run several rsnapshot backup jobs as root, but I think the culprit is:
test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1
which checks scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily etc. on the following schedule:
*/15 * * * *
That would be /etc/crontab - both my 11.0 and 11.2 have the exact same file:
---------- SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/lib/news/bin MAILTO=root # # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly, and cron.monthly # -*/15 * * * * root test -x /usr/lib/cron/run-crons && /usr/lib/cron/run-crons >/dev/null 2>&1 -------------
Syntax is in crontab(5).
Every 15 minutes user root will test if /usr/lib/cron/run-crons is executable and run it. Your line, if what you posted is what you have, is incorrect, it doesn't have the execute part; thus you are getting the mail, because by default a mail is only sent on errors, and this is an error.
That's my sleepy guess at this early time of the year :-)
My mistake. I have the same as you quote above in /etc/crontab. My previous quote was taken from what is displayed in System Settings > Advanced > Task Scheduler. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.2, Kernel 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop, KDE 4.3.3 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org