[SOLVED] cron job (emerge --sync) does not work

peka · Last edited by peka on Sun Apr 09, 2006 8:50 pm; edited 1 time in total

I have set up cron to sync portage every day.
I smmes to be soing it... and fails... ? I tried to update world after this job and nothing. then synnced manually and update world comes with packages to update.

zsoltika · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject:

Emerge 'mailx' or nail or something like that. Or set up your crontab to not send any mail. HTH
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peka · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:20 pm Post subject:

That's not the problem.
I think it wants to mail root because some problem ocured with completeing the job.
I want to see what the problem was.
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zsoltika · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:29 pm Post subject:

Try to issue mail from the command line.
The 'unable to locate mail' could shows it has something to do with the mail command.
You can also check your messages & mail logs.
And you can always do something like

peka · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject:

The listing I have shown in my first post is from /var/log/messages.
The problem I have is I don't know why cron-scheduled emerge --sync fails.
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zsoltika · Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject:

Then try to redirect it's output into some logfile as I mentioned in my previous post.
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