Disable null body in Linux mail
Hi guys, I'm trying to disable a certain cronjob from sending an empty email to my account. From google, I came across this parameter "-e" which ought to tell mailx not to send empty messages, but the version that I have on Centos 5.5 does not recognize that parameter. I have also been trying to see where I can use the "set nonullbody" parameter, but :-( Any suggestions? Me.
Hi Simon, I had an issue with crond on Cent OS apparently there is a bug or something wrong with the cron daemon, I had to re-install vixie-cron to try sort it. Try a re-install. Cheers TheMburu On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm trying to disable a certain cronjob from sending an empty email to my account. From google, I came across this parameter "-e" which ought to tell mailx not to send empty messages, but the version that I have on Centos 5.5 does not recognize that parameter. I have also been trying to see where I can use the "set nonullbody" parameter, but :-(
Any suggestions?
Me.
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Hi George, The null message body is generated by mail/mailx, not the cron daemon. Looks to me like the Cron daemon is running OK. Actually, I am running the script manually as in: sh /etc/cron.daily/script.sh After some time I get an output message saying "Null message body; hope that's ok" On googling this message, I found that it is generated by mailx. The script that I am running in the cron folder contains a mail command that is supposed to send me an email containing the output of the scheduled command. Now I am looking for a way to disable mailx from sending emails with blank bodies. Hope I have successfully convinced you that the null body has nothing to do with the cron daemon :) Me. On 17 May 2010 13:05, George Njoroge <themburu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Simon,
I had an issue with crond on Cent OS apparently there is a bug or something wrong with the cron daemon, I had to re-install vixie-cron to try sort it. Try a re-install.
Cheers TheMburu
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi guys,
I'm trying to disable a certain cronjob from sending an empty email to my account. From google, I came across this parameter "-e" which ought to tell mailx not to send empty messages, but the version that I have on Centos 5.5 does not recognize that parameter. I have also been trying to see where I can use the "set nonullbody" parameter, but :-(
Any suggestions?
Me.
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