daemons & emails

[SINNER]

* Richard G. Riley wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

> How do you pick up "internal" system emails from daemons such as cron?

> cron. grrr. Just spent hours getting it to work with leafnode - hell
> of a lot of wrong crontab examples out there in google land.

Install procmail and use /usr/bin/formail

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[Al Krieger]

On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:49:13 +0100, Richard G. Riley wrote:

> How do you pick up "internal" system emails from daemons such as cron?
>
> cron. grrr. Just spent hours getting it to work with leafnode - hell
> of a lot of wrong crontab examples out there in google land.

I thought the answer was mail. So I tried it on a konsole. Would you
believe that (k)ubuntu DOESN'T install mail by default. And the reason, I
looked in /var/mail (/var/spool/mail is just a link to ../mail) it was
empty! There are messages from cron in the "system log" thingie, that you
can see from ksystemlog. That is actually /var/log/syslog, which, of
course, you can view with Konqueror or the Gnome equivalent.

[Toby Newman]

On 2006-03-06, Al Krieger <al@my.house> wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:49:13 +0100, Richard G. Riley wrote:
>

>> How do you pick up "internal" system emails from daemons such as cron?
>>
>> cron. grrr. Just spent hours getting it to work with leafnode - hell
>> of a lot of wrong crontab examples out there in google land.

> I thought the answer was mail. So I tried it on a konsole. Would you
> believe that (k)ubuntu DOESN'T install mail by default.

It's not even available for installation via Adept. I just searched for
packages called mail and it isn't there.

Would mutt work?



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[SINNER]

* Toby Newman wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:

> On 2006-03-06, Al Krieger <al@my.house> wrote:

>> On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:49:13 +0100, Richard G. Riley wrote:
>>

>>> How do you pick up "internal" system emails from daemons such as cron?
>>>
>>> cron. grrr. Just spent hours getting it to work with leafnode - hell
>>> of a lot of wrong crontab examples out there in google land.

>> I thought the answer was mail. So I tried it on a konsole. Would you
>> believe that (k)ubuntu DOESN'T install mail by default.

>
> It's not even available for installation via Adept. I just searched for
> packages called mail and it isn't there.
>
> Would mutt work?

Yes, much better too. But it is not what I believe the OP asked for. Mutt
will read mail in the spool, but it has to get there first which is what I
thought the OP was asking...?

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[Toby Newman]

On 2006-03-07, SINNER <arcade.master@gmail.com> wrote:

> * Toby Newman wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:
>

>> On 2006-03-06, Al Krieger <al@my.house> wrote:

>>> On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 19:49:13 +0100, Richard G. Riley wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do you pick up "internal" system emails from daemons such as cron?
>>>>
>>>> cron. grrr. Just spent hours getting it to work with leafnode - hell
>>>> of a lot of wrong crontab examples out there in google land.
>>> I thought the answer was mail. So I tried it on a konsole. Would you
>>> believe that (k)ubuntu DOESN'T install mail by default.

>>
>> It's not even available for installation via Adept. I just searched for
>> packages called mail and it isn't there.
>>
>> Would mutt work?

>
> Yes, much better too. But it is not what I believe the OP asked for. Mutt
> will read mail in the spool, but it has to get there first which is what I
> thought the OP was asking...?

You are right.

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