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Re: cron jobs quit after 1 minute
G.W. Haywood <ged <at> jubileegroup.co.uk> writes:
> Hi there,
> You might find that it's trying to send you mail, and that sendmail
> (or some other mail executable) isn't available. This will cause the
> cron job to halt. It caught me out when I first ran cygwin.
Hey!!! You're Right! I set MAILTO='' in my crontab, and the problem went away!
the script runs to completion!
thanks!!
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