Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:00:24 +1100 From: Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> To: "Richard Ward" <mh@neonsky.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Output files Message-ID: <200102252200.JAA12907@tungsten.austclear.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from "Richard Ward" <mh@neonsky.net> of "Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:35:20 CDT." <005d01c09f72$de279cc0$0101a8c0@lan>
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Hi Richard, > For some odd reason, about a week ago my FreeBSD 4.1.1-stable machine > stopped generating statistics (daily, weekly, monthly, etc. > run/security) and I was wondering what might of caused this. Also, > how would I be able to generate these statistics on demand? Could > there be a verbose way of seeing what it does, so that I could check > for errors in it's gathering of information? Well, if you look in /etc/crontab you will see that these are all output by the "periodic" script (which is in /usr/sbin). So the two most likely sources of problem are: cron periodic I would probably consider a cron problem much more likely, so... Is cron still running (try "ps wwax | more")? Is /etc/crontab still there, and does it still have the entries for periodic dialy/weekly/monthly? Is it logging errors in /var/log/cron when it tries to run periodic? And yes, you should be able to get this info manually by running periodic yourself, which will email you the results as usual, or you can create your own periodic.conf to get something else to happen. Cheers, Tony -- Tony Landells <ahl@austclear.com.au> Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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