[nzlug] cron

[Kealey, Martin, ihug-NZ]

Nevyn wrote:
> Just figured it out. Turns out crontab appears to write an error log
> of your own tasks in your home directory under the name "dead.letter".

Cron sends mail to the owner of any failed jobs.

If there is no mail transport installed, then the mail user agent will write the message into dead.letter in the *sender's* home directory.

(You may notice when you apt-get install cron, it suggests "mailx" or similar as a user agent.)

-Martin
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