On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 16:02 -0500, Charles E Taylor IV wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:43:47 -0600 > Les Mikesell <les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I don't think I have a machine that doesn't email notifications of > > one sort or another to me. How do you know if your cron jobs are > > failing? > > On the other hand, the original poster is talking about a notebook > computer. Do most notebook users really run that many cron jobs? > YES. (Maybe no customized ones, but just look at /etc/crontab to see what runs by default.) Also, many use the laptop as their primary PC and as such it may be used many hours a day. Cron is a blessing. Logrotate runs weekly and logwatch runs daily (as well as many others in cron.daily, cron.weekly, etc.) If logrotate does not run the log files will never get rotated and eventually the size gets astronomical. If sendmail (or some other MTA) is not running then you would never get notifications of the logwatch output, or any other cron job results.
