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Re: Installing Cron on Windows 2003 Server...


Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
It's working because we know it's trying to mail you something.
To find out what,  remove MAILTO="" and install a poor man's mailer as follows.
It will write the mail output to /cronmail.txt

~: cd /
/: cat > cronmail.sh
cat > /cronmail.txt

(NOTE: type CTRL-C after typing the above line)


...and shouldn't that be 'cat >> ...' instead of 'cat > ...'?

/: chmod a+rx /cronmail.sh /: cd /usr/sbin
/usr/sbin: ln -sf /cronmail.sh sendmail

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