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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat /etc/aliases & Sendmail Post 302889039 by Nvizn on Tuesday 18th of February 2014 11:59:07 AM
Old 02-18-2014
/etc/aliases & Sendmail
I've recently migrated a Solaris 10 server, to Redhat. I've migrated all my crons & scripts and now I'm attempting to set all the aliases, to send to the appropriate accounts. I have a particular user defined in /etc/aliases, however, when a particular script is ran in cron, I do not receive any emails. Here's an example of a script that runs, that does send an email appropriately, on the old box.

Code:
0 5 * * * su - user -c "/directory/subdirectory/custom/script cycle force" 2> /dev/null > /dev/null


Any insight as to why I'm not receiving emails for this, is appreciated. Sendmail is working and I do receive root crons. To add, all of these crons run under the root crontab. Thanks!
 

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send-reminders

SEND-REMINDERS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 SEND-REMINDERS(1)

NAME

       Send-reminders - send email reminders for special occasions

SYNOPSIS

       Send emails reminders set by users for special occasions.

DESCRIPTION

       Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email.	Possible events include birthdays, anniversaries
       and yearly events.  Reminders can be sent on the day of the event and a few days beforehand.

       This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job.  It mails the actual reminders out.

       When run by the root user, it processes all of the spooled reminders.  When run by a specific user, it only processes reminders set by that
       user.

OPTIONS

       --help
	     Displays basic usage message.

       --simulate
	     Does not actually send any emails out.

       --verbose
	     Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.

       --version
	     Displays the version number.

FILES

       ~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf

AUTHOR

       Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>

SEE ALSO

       email-reminder-editor, collect-reminders

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier

       Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-28							 SEND-REMINDERS(1)
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