Re: Cron strangeness

[Andrew Williams <andrew williams sourcefire com>]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 17:03, Tony Inskeep wrote:
> Peter mentioned sendmail below. Has anyone else noticed that somehwere in
> the last couple distro releases ie, 7.3, 8 and 9, that sendmail must be
> running all the time in order for cron jobs to be sent?
> 
> In other words, I have to run
> 
> chkconfig --list sendmail
> 
> to make sure its starting on those servers, just so I can send nightly 
> cron job results. If anyone knows of a better solution, that would be 
> excellent.


You can use Net::SMTP to send data sent over STDIN to someone via a
specified mailserver.  Should be a quick 5 or 6 liner.

- andrew