Some root mail not coming through [Solved?]

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 04:22, John Swartzentruber wrote:
> I *may* have found the problem. It seems everything I thought was 
> happening was really a red herring. I believe the problem was not that 
> the logwatch messages were not being sent or received, it was that the 
> logwatch in the cron was never finishing. Before I turned on Arthur, I 
> tried running /etc/cron.daily/00-logwatch directly. It just sat there 
> for a long time. Then a light went on in my head. I have an NFS mount 
> for arthur in my /etc/fstab on buster. When I umount that, 00-logwatch 
> finishs when I run in directly. Something in the logwatch process 
> appears to be waiting for /mnt/arthur to be valid before the program 
> finishes.

Well.. did it solve your problems then???
Would make sense, but I can't understand why cron would just complain
and get on with life??

Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz 
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