Cron message puzzle

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Jan 26 19:25:41 UTC 2007


On Thursday 25 January 2007 16:23, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:38, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On two boxes I get messages sumarising completion, sent to root and
> > > forwarded to me. A third box, running FC4 like one of the other two,
> > > must be running the cron jobs, because the ssh accesses are reported
> > > by logwatch, yet I don't get the reports from that box. /etc/aliases
> > > names me for receiving root's mail. Have I forgotten somewhere else
> > > that it has to be enabled? I've a feeling that there is somewhere
> > > else, but I can't think of it.
> >
> > Stupid question -- you are running a mail server on the third box,
> > aren't you?
> >
> > What do its logs say?
>
> Darn it - I can't believe it, but there was a typo in
> the /etc/postfix/transport file.  Can't believe that I didn't spot that
> before.  Now we'll see whether the next report comes through, and whether
> the old ones are queued.
>
Unfortunately that has only partially solved the problem.  I'm now getting 
logwatch messages, but no cron ones.  There is a small backup job due to run 
twice daily, and I haven't seen any message for it yet.  The job clearly ran 
this afternoon, as I can see files on the backup drive that were not created 
until this morning.

Anne




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