> Check the contents of your root user's mailbox on this system. If cron
> is not completely configured to send e-mails to the accounts which run
> the cron commands, then the e-mails from cron have probably ended up in
> the root mailbox. Anything sent to standard out/error from a cron
> process will be mailed somewhere, unless that functionality is disabled.
I checked root's mailbox, and it's empty. If cron/amanda did try
sending emails, I don't know where they went. :)
> I am more used to individual crontab files, which gives cron the best
> clue as to which user ID receives the e-mailed output, but that should
> also work here (although I have no experience with the version of cron
> that you are using).
Are you saying create a crontab file for the amanda user, and if so,
how? I did give this a shot with "crontab -e" as the amanda user (i.e.
su amanda), but that didn't work at all (no emails or backups).
> Run something like the following for a few minutes to track down the
> processes and where they lead. It will give you more insight into
> how e-mail from cron is handled.
>
> * * * * * amanda echo "Hello World" && sleep 45 && echo "Hello,
> Again"
<snip>
Well, I got emails sent to me every minute or so, and running lsof
didn't tell me much that I could make sense of. Here's the output:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
bash 21851 amanda cwd DIR 8,6 4096 2 /
bash 21851 amanda rtd DIR 8,6 4096 2 /
bash 21851 amanda txt REG 8,6 626028 3194883 /bin/bash
bash 21851 amanda mem REG 8,6 104560 3653635 /lib/ld-2.3.2.so
bash 21851 amanda mem REG 8,6 11784 3653696
/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8
bash 21851 amanda mem REG 8,6 15900 3653647
/lib/libdl-2.3.2.so
bash 21851 amanda mem REG 8,6 1536292 819204
/lib/tls/libc-2.3.2.so
bash 21851 amanda 0r FIFO 0,5 2106751 pipe
bash 21851 amanda 1w FIFO 0,5 2106752 pipe
bash 21851 amanda 2w FIFO 0,5 2106752 pipe
Bleh. :)
Thanks for the help. I must be doing something stupid somewhere.
Kanwar Sandhu
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