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I figured it out. What I was seeing was the normal hostname portion of the prompt. This is configured, in OS X 10.8, in /etc/bashrc. It had nothing to do with the mySQL install. I had opened...

I recently installed mySQL on my macbook. I opened Terminal to run mySQL and entered "cd /usr/local/mysql/bin". My command prompt immediately changed to "mrbigglesworth:". I have no idea why that...

Okay, here's the answer, I hope it helps others since it took a lot of digging:

The User field is optional. When I removed the "root" and simply left that field blank it ran fine. ...

Well, that was an interesting question. I tried commenting out the Path statement and now I get "/bin/sh: line 1: root: command not found". So apparently cron doesn't count the lines containing...

The problem isn't with the script. I can comment out the script and get the same problem. The problem is that cron stops at the very first line that says "SHELL=/bin/bash" and returns the fact that...

No, I used crontab -e. I think the editor is vi.

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I'm running OS 10.3.9 and am trying to get a cron job to work. When the hourly execution time rolls around the script doesn't run and I get an email from cron saying "/bin/bash: line 1: root:...

Thanks Zaxxon,

I had tried variations of that. I don't really have anything to post because I was stuck at the beginning. Turns out the problem is with my understanding of procmail since your...

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I've managed to get my .procmailrc file to work. At least it triggers a script which creates a file. But the file is empty. How do I get at the data that's been piped? I've done much...

Hi era, thanks for the reponse. It's not clear to me either how the script receives the email but your stdin tip is probably the key. I'll explore that. As for the rest, I may have figured out the...

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I'm trying to write a simple script to take an email subject line and add it to a db. I've currently given up on getting procmail to work with my hosting folks so that leaves me with a shell...