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>Cron can fail silently as well if don't set MAILTO. From the cron man page: > Any output produced by a command is sent to the user specified in the MAILTO en
by upofadown 7y ago
>Cron can fail silently as well if don't set MAILTO.
From the cron man page:
> Any output produced by a command is sent to the user specified in the MAILTO environment variable as set in the crontab(5) file or, if no MAILTO variable is set (or if this is an at(1) or batch(1) job), to the job's owner.
- 1996 7y agoWith a non working mail configuration, it goes nowhere. I think the author meant that
- upofadown 7y agoIf they did mean that then they were deliberately missing the point of the original complaint.That isn't the sort of thing we are allowed to assume here...
- 1996 7y agoSo you prefer not assuming good fait? Ok. Without mail, journalctl and even better, systemctl list-timers will tell you about failed crons. Can you do something as good with at and cron?