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Is there any reason per-user cronjobs running vncserver @reboot wouldn't run?

When I reboot the machine and look into /var/log/syslog, I see the jobs being run, then cron saying (CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output).

I'd rather not configure postfix just to figure out why these jobs aren't running, but I'm not sure I have another choice here. Unless the program mentioned here will yield me the email data.

EDIT:

Well, I installed femtomail per its readme, but got this from cron: MAIL (mailed 1 byte of output; but got status 0x0001, #012).

One byte? That hardly seems like it could be an error code.

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For me the solution was to run vncserver as a specific user:

@reboot sudo -u YOUR_USERNAME vncserver :1 -localhost -geometry 1920x1080

If the above doesn't solve the problem, make cron start vncserver every minute (to get the error as fast as possible) and redirect the stdout and stderr logs to a file, which will tell you the actual error.

* * * * * vncserver :1 -localhost -geometry 1920x1080 >> ~/cron_vncserver_output.log 2>&1
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