cron problem

Eygene Ryabinkin rea at codelabs.ru
Fri Sep 20 12:16:20 BST 2013


William, good day.

Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 12:36:25PM -0400, William Seager wrote:
> Hi all - I just discovered offlineimap and it is working very well
> at ameliorating kmail's abysmal imap performance.
> 
> My problem is that offlineimap fails to run as a cron job.
> 
> Here's my crontab line (absolutely simple):
> 
> */10 * * * *     myuser  /usr/bin/offlineimap
> 
> here's the crontab "header"
> 
> # for vixie cron
> # $Header: 
> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v 
> 1.2 2009/05/12 09:13:46 bangert Exp $
> # Global variables
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> PYTHONPATH=/usr/bin
> MAILTO=""
> HOME=/
> 
> (I added the PYTHONPATH but it did not help)

Is there any output from the cron job?  Setting MAILTO to some reasonable
value that will deliver the output to you, you can check what's going on
by yourself and/or post details here.
-- 
rea




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