Some root mail not coming through

[John Swartzentruber]

On 12/7/2004 9:56 PM Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 22:24, John Swartzentruber wrote:
> 
>>On 12/5/2004 3:39 AM Ow Mun Heng wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 04:29, John Swartzentruber wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>I'm guessing that arthur is the one which is relaying all the messages??
>>>
>>>Can you check if the mesage queue in buster is in the queue?
>>>
>>
>>/var/spool/mqueue is empty
>>/var/spool/clientmqueue is empty
>>                Total requests: 0
> 
> 
> and I presume there's really nothing in those directories? (I'm sure
> there isn't, just asking the obvious)

Correct, they are empty (i.e., "ls -a" shows only "." and "..").


>>FYI, I just tried sending mail from buster using the "mail" command. 
> 
> What sort of MTA do you use? Sendmail? 
> The mail command is, mailx I presume?
> 
> /bin/mailx->mail

Yes, I am using Sendmail. The mail command is /bin/mail. I don't have a 
"mailx" program.


>>From the manpage of "man 5 crontab"
> In addition to LOGNAME, HOME, and SHELL, cron(8) will look at MAILTO
> if it has any reason to send  mail  as  a result of running commands in 
> ``this'' crontab.  If MAILTO is defined (and non-empty), mail is
> sent to the user so named.  If MAILTO is defined but empty  
> (MAILTO=""),  no  mail  will be sent.  Otherwise mail is sent to the owner
> of the crontab.  This option is useful if you decide on /bin/mail
> instead of  /usr/lib/sendmail  as  your  mailer  when  you
> install cron -- /bin/mail doesn't do aliasing, and UUCP usually doesn't read its mail.
> 
> Can you check your MAILTO variable??

I don't have a "MAILTO" variable. Or at least when I do "set" as root, 
nothing shows up.

I also verified that all of the scripts in /etc/cron.daily are owned by 
root, and /etc/crontab runs "run-parts" on /etc/cron.daily as root, and 
/usr/bin/run-parts is owned by root.

This is all very weird. I can't see why "mail -s test root <file" 
delivers fine, but the normal logwatch delivery doesn't come through.

> /shot in the dark

At this point, that's what I'm looking for. Unfortunately nothing seems 
to have hit yet. Thanks for trying.



>>It 
>>successfully send a message to "root", which was received. It seems to 
>>only be the logwatch and cron messages that aren't coming through.
> 
> 
> --
> Ow Mun Heng
> Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 
> Neuromancer 10:51:15 up 1:52, 6 users, 0.46, 0.45, 0.36 
> 
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