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Title: Strange behavior of crontab file
Post by: fpcomputers on February 28, 2006, 03:39:01 PM

Hi,

in SME version 6.5 and before i created a file to get mail from other servers. This file was made in
templates/etc/crontab           and looks like
*/2 * * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -f
In the root dir I've created the .fetchmailrc where the accounts are stored included the password.

After all I use /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/crontab
All this works fine but in version 7.0 pre 3 I can't get this solution to work.
Nothing happens at all.

Does someone have a solution for me to get this at work under version 7.0pre3?

Thanx in regard,

Fred Wormsbecher

Title: Strange behavior of crontab file
Post by: gardnc on March 01, 2006, 11:53:35 PM

Try looking in the /var/log/cron logfile to see if there is an error message associated with that cron.  Every cron that runs should have an entry and a possible error entry every time the cron runs.  Often you can see things like permission problems that appear to be otherwise hidden.

Larry

Title: Re: Strange behavior of crontab file
Post by: CharlieBrady on March 02, 2006, 12:37:09 AM

Quote from: "fpcomputers"

in SME version 6.5 and before i created a file to get mail from other servers. This file was made in
templates/etc/crontab           and looks like
*/2 * * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -f
In the root dir I've created the .fetchmailrc where the accounts are stored included the password.

After all I use /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/crontab
All this works fine but in version 7.0 pre 3 I can't get this solution to work.
Nothing happens at all.

Check "man fetchmail". "-f" needs to be followed by a filepath, e.g. "-f /root/.fetchmailrc".