[nflug] Cron email limit?

Darin Perusich Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com
Fri Jan 27 08:10:15 EST 2006


i couldn't find anything specificly related to an output limit but i 
think you might be right. you might want to write a little wrapper 
script which does your export and emails the output to you.

Justin Bennett wrote:
> I have an oracle export on a Redhat 2.1ES system out of /etc/crontab on 
> a nightly basis. I rely on cron to send me the results of the job,Ii'm 
> not telling it to pipe to mail or anything like that. Last night I 
> didn't get a notification email. I checked /var/log/maillog nothing was 
> sent. I looked in /var/spool/mqueue and there is a message in there. 
> It's cut off though, it doesn't show the full results of the export. I 
> checked my export log and everything was fine.
> 
> the mqueue file is 64K
> 
> -rw-------    1 root     root        65536 Jan 26 02:15 dfk0Q4U0i15380
> 
> which makes me beleive I'm hitting a 64K limit somewhere.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

-- 
Darin Perusich
Unix Systems Administrator
Cognigen Corp.
darinper at cognigencorp.com
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