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mark009
Asked: 2020-04-17 01:30:55 +0800 CST

mailx does not run using crontab

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I have a script which sends emails. It works perfectly when run manually but I doesn't work when run with crontab:

#!/bin/bash
cat $HOME/myfolder/mailbody | /bin/mailx -v -s "mymail" -a file.txt [email protected] > $HOME/myfolder/script.log

When run with crontab, nothing is written in "$HOME/myfolder/script.log". I can't understand why with crontab the command to send the email is not run.

redhat cron mailx

1 Answers

  1. I solved it by specifying the absolute path to mailx attachment argument:

    #!/bin/bash
cat $HOME/myfolder/mailbody | /bin/mailx -v -s "mymail" -a /path/to/file.txt [email protected] > $HOME/myfolder/script.log
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