Re: crontab error email question

From: Steve Nottingham (steve_at_wakefieldrfc.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 11/20/03 

Date: 20 Nov 2003 06:24:46 -0800

"Louis" <louis.banens@nospam.xs4all.nl> wrote in message news:<3fbc8a34$0$58714$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
> > >
> > Maybe you could indulge us with the output you have...
> >
>
> Well, here is a sample E-mail that is automatically send. So, it doesn't say
> which main process did the ls command since it's not directly invoked from
> the crontab. So basically the crontab only displays the output but doesn't
> specify the process which is responsible for that.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------
> From:
> To: root@xxx.xxx
> Subject: [No subject]
> ls: 0653-341 The file /apps/v91/dm/rundmk/ku1001043.dmt does not exist.
>
>
> *****************************************************************
> cron: The previous message is the standard output
> and standard error of one of the cron commands.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------
>

Which version of AIX is this ? Have you checked all your scripts that
are call in crontab to see which one could possibly be causing this
output ?

The mails from cron on my systems have more details:

>From daemon Thu Nov 20 06:14:39 2003
Received: (from daemon@localhost) by host@domain (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2
/8.11.0) id hAK6Eci331074 for root; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:14:39 GMT
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:14:39 GMT
From: daemon
Message-Id: <200311200614.hAK6Eci331074@host@domain >
To: root

another_host: A remote host did not respond within the timeout period.

*****************************************************************
        cron: The previous message is the standard output
        and standard error of one of the cron commands.

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