cron jobs quit after 1 minute

[Andrew Louie]

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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