topic Re: Cron Job execution error in Operating System - Linux

Cron Job execution error

JUGAL KISHORE MAHESHWAR — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:29:15 GMT

I have set a cron job , The job is running fine manually , & even through cron it get executed successfully. however some time This gets failed with following error in log file.

(root) MAIL (mailed 23 bytes of output but got status 0x004e )

Could some one tell me what is this & why this is happening some time

OS is Linux AS 2.4

Re: Cron Job execution error

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:48:46 GMT

Shalom,

Check the /var/log/maillog file for that time for further errors.

SEP

Re: Cron Job execution error

JUGAL KISHORE MAHESHWAR — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:04:07 GMT

I am getting following error in mail log file

Aug 19 04:02:01 lewis sendmail[767]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied

Re: Cron Job execution error

skt_skt — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:34:15 GMT

check the permission.( what i am giving is from RHEL AS4/U4; same for RHEL AS3/U8)

# ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue
drwx------ 2 root mail 266240 Aug 22 23:30 /var/spool/mqueue

# ls -ld /var/spool/clientmqueue
drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Aug 22 23:30 /var/spool/clientmqueue