PatchVault › Errors › Agent Operator Kit (23 skills)
(CRON) info (No MTA installed, discarding output)
cron tried to email your job's stdout/stderr, but there is no mail transfer agent, so the output was thrown away. The job itself may still have run.
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Why it happens
This message is informational. The real problem is that any errors from your job, including an AI agent run, are being lost.
Manual fix
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*/30 * * * * flock -n /tmp/agent.lock /home/me/run_agent.sh >> /home/me/logs/agent.log 2>&1
Verify
Re-run your install/build and re-scan the file above. The finding should be gone. The paid fixer applies the same change across a repo: --dry-run shows the diff, --apply keeps a .bak of each file, and --rollback restores them.
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Full guide and free terminal scanner: Agent Operator Kit (23 skills). Last checked 2026-10-31.