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Wrong charset for cron

I got a issue on a export job i had that was running daily on which the charset of the data exported wer wrong, and this did not happen when i ran the job manually. I noticed that Cron used … Continue reading

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Munin-graph error: Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()

You may get a mail from cron complaining about “Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to pango_layout_set_text()”, if you are running Munin. This is caused by Munin not receiving valid UTF-8 data. For this you have 2 possible solutions: 1) … Continue reading

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Cron commands not working when outputting to stderr(2>&1)

The error: username@host:/home/foo> fetchmail -f /opt/rt-fetchmail/fetchmail 2>&1 /dev/null Enter password for username@/dev/null: Solution: Change the cron entry / command to the following: fetchmail -f /opt/rt-fetchmail/fetchmail > /dev/null 2>&1 This will stop -all- output from appearing.

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