SUMMARY: crontab problem

From: Sanjiv K. Bhatia <sanjiv_at_aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu>
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 18:34:11 EDT
I have two responses that fixed the problem.  The user was connected via ssh.  
We changed it to connection via rlogin and that fixed it.

Thanks to Patrick O'Reilly and Gwyn Price.

Sanjiv
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Original message:

> I have a strange crontab problem that has completely baffled me.  Here is the 
> crontab entry:
> 
> 53 16 * * * /bin/echo Hello | /bin/mailx sanjiv@cs.umsl.edu
> 
> Here is what I get in logfile:
> 
> ! cron audit problem. job failed (/bin/echo Hello | /bin/mailx 
> sanjiv@cs.umsl.edu) for user a-howell Tue Oct 21 16:53:00 2003
> >  CMD: /bin/echo Hello | /bin/mailx sanjiv@cs.umsl.edu
> >  a-howell 27091 c Tue Oct 21 16:53:00 2003
> <  a-howell 27091 c Tue Oct 21 16:53:00 2003 rc=1
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