CentOS - Nov 2012 - centos 6.3, cron and mail script output

Hi all

I have a '/etc/cron.daily/push-to-backup' script which the content is:

   #!/bin/bash
   /usr/bin/rsync [... long options line ...]
   echo "finished pushing to the backup"

Launched manually, it's OK.

Waiting for cron to execute it,
In the "/var/log/cron", I see the starting time and the finish time,
and
I see it take about 10 minutes to make the job. That's very fine, it's 
the expected executioon time

The problem is: I get no EMail.
In "/etc/cron.daily/", I also have "logwatch", whose EMail
comes to me
without problem.
"/etc/aliases" is already setup to forward root and cron emails to my 
email adress.
Testing the MTA (Exim) on command-line: success (anyway, logwatch also 
success on sending email)


On another centos5 machine, the same script, the mail is sent.

On the Centos 6:
   $ rpm -aq | grep cron
   crontabs-1.10-33.el6.noarch
   cronie-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
   cronie-anacron-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64

On the Centos 5:
   $ rpm -aq | grep cron
   crontabs-1.10-8
   vixie-cron-4.1-81.el5
   anacron-2.3-45.el5.centos


How to setup the Centos6 system so that the cron sends me an email the 
script output??

-- 
RMA.

check out the crontab file if you have these,

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root ===========================> that's what you are looking for
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly

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Blog: http://www.rootong.com
Email: banyan at rootong.com

On 2012-11-23 3:52 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have a '/etc/cron.daily/push-to-backup' script which the content
is:
>
>     #!/bin/bash
>     /usr/bin/rsync [... long options line ...]
>     echo "finished pushing to the backup"
>
> Launched manually, it's OK.
>
> Waiting for cron to execute it,
> In the "/var/log/cron", I see the starting time and the finish
time, and
> I see it take about 10 minutes to make the job. That's very fine,
it's
> the expected executioon time
>
> The problem is: I get no EMail.
> In "/etc/cron.daily/", I also have "logwatch", whose
EMail comes to me
> without problem.
> "/etc/aliases" is already setup to forward root and cron emails
to my
> email adress.
> Testing the MTA (Exim) on command-line: success (anyway, logwatch also
> success on sending email)
>
>
> On another centos5 machine, the same script, the mail is sent.
>
> On the Centos 6:
>     $ rpm -aq | grep cron
>     crontabs-1.10-33.el6.noarch
>     cronie-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
>     cronie-anacron-1.4.4-7.el6.x86_64
>
> On the Centos 5:
>     $ rpm -aq | grep cron
>     crontabs-1.10-8
>     vixie-cron-4.1-81.el5
>     anacron-2.3-45.el5.centos
>
>
> How to setup the Centos6 system so that the cron sends me an email the
> script output??
>

Le ven. 23 nov. 2012 10:52:50 CET, Mihamina Rakotomandimby a ?crit:
> Hi all
> 
> I have a '/etc/cron.daily/push-to-backup' script which the content
is:
> 
>    #!/bin/bash
>    /usr/bin/rsync [... long options line ...]
>    echo "finished pushing to the backup"
> 
> Launched manually, it's OK.
> 
> Waiting for cron to execute it,
> In the "/var/log/cron", I see the starting time and the finish
time, and
> I see it take about 10 minutes to make the job. That's very fine,
it's
> the expected executioon time
> ...
Compare the execution time to the timeout option of your smtp server.

I don't know about exim, but on my postfix I added :
smtpd_timeout = 30m

Another possibility is to "spool" the mail, something like :
rsync ...options... 2>&1 > LOGFILE
echo -e "finished pushing to the backup \n$LOGFILE"

hth,

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