cron and mail -- cron job not starts

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: cron and mail -- cron job not starts
started by: NewLinuxGuy

Posted by NewLinuxGuy on Dec. 03 2006,20:04

Using apt-get install cron, i installed the cron and verified that it is running by using ps -fe|grep cron.

However, whatever i set up, nothing happend, even a simple scritp as

#!/bin/sh
echo Hello > /tmp/cron_check

seems would not start.

I checked man page for cron. It mentioned that cron will email the error message to the account owner. Now my question is that "do I need a mail client/server to use cron?"

Thank you so much

Posted by NewLinuxGuy on Dec. 04 2006,20:16

I answered myself in another post. Just in case you are interested.

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....t=0;r=1 >

PS. if you know what you are doing on cron, don't bother with kcron, which is nice, but not necessarey worths the 35 MB spaces it needs on HD (considering a large portion of DSL users are using older machines) - IMHO