Re: Cron & ssmtp timeouts

Re: Cron & ssmtp timeouts

[Gerrit Cap]

>Gerrit,
>
>On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:03:56PM +0200, Gerrit Cap wrote:
> > I have a few batch jobs that I would like to schedule using cron and have
> > the output e-mailed. For small jobs this works fine but for jobs that run
> > for a period of time no e-mail is being sent. Instead after snooping 
> around
> > I found this error message in /var/log/cron.log:
> > /usr/sbin/ssmtp: connection lost in the middle of processing, exiting.
>
>I had similar problems.
>
> > Any ideas how to solve this ?
>
>Yes, if you are willing to use procmail and read the cron mail (only)
>locally, see the attached patch.  I have patched my cron to deliver mail
>via procmail instead of ssmtp in order to:
>
>     o solve the above problem
>     o prevent mail servers from removing the X-Cron-Env header fields
>     o remove the dependency of multiple mail hops just to send mail
>       to myself
>
>Jason

Jason,

Ok, thanx for the patch, but I solved it differently which gave me an extra 
bonus:
I created another batch script (batch-mail.sh) which launched the original 
batch program (batch.sh), redirected its output to batch.out and e-mails me 
that output. Problem solved and now I have as additional "feature" that my 
e-mails can be tuned to different mailboxes depending on the batch job.

Gerrit.

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Re: Cron & ssmtp timeouts

[Jason Tishler]

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Gerrit,

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:03:56PM +0200, Gerrit Cap wrote:
> I have a few batch jobs that I would like to schedule using cron and have 
> the output e-mailed. For small jobs this works fine but for jobs that run 
> for a period of time no e-mail is being sent. Instead after snooping around 
> I found this error message in /var/log/cron.log:
> /usr/sbin/ssmtp: connection lost in the middle of processing, exiting.

I had similar problems.

> Any ideas how to solve this ?

Yes, if you are willing to use procmail and read the cron mail (only)
locally, see the attached patch.  I have patched my cron to deliver mail
via procmail instead of ssmtp in order to:

    o solve the above problem 
    o prevent mail servers from removing the X-Cron-Env header fields
    o remove the dependency of multiple mail hops just to send mail
      to myself

Jason

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--- config.h.orig	Tue Jan  8 10:22:06 2002
+++ config.h	Tue Jan  8 10:24:25 2002
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@
 			 * (hint: MAILTO= was added for this reason).
 			 */
 
-#define MAILCMD _PATH_SENDMAIL					/*-*/
-#define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem %s"			/*-*/
+#define MAILCMD "/usr/local/bin/procmail"
+#define MAILARGS "%s -d %s"
+
+/* #define MAILCMD _PATH_SENDMAIL					-*/
+/* #define MAILARGS "%s -FCronDaemon -odi -oem %s"			-*/
 			/* -Fx	 = set full-name of sender
 			 * -odi	 = Option Deliverymode Interactive
 			 * -oem	 = Option Errors Mailedtosender


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Cron & ssmtp timeouts

[Gerrit Cap]

Hello,

I have a few batch jobs that I would like to schedule using cron and have 
the output e-mailed. For small jobs this works fine but for jobs that run 
for a period of time no e-mail is being sent. Instead after snooping around 
I found this error message in /var/log/cron.log:
/usr/sbin/ssmtp: connection lost in the middle of processing, exiting.

It is very difficult if not impossible to split the job in smaller parts so 
each part could be launched in a seperate cron job.

Any ideas how to solve this ?

Gerrit.



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B-9150 Kruibeke-Bazel           fax : +32 3   744.19.17
Belgium
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