From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 15:27:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65D4037B401 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0D9643F93 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:27:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h57MPeE6002393 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 7 Jun 2003 23:27:01 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)h57MPemS002392; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 23:25:40 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 23:25:40 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Luke Kearney Message-ID: <20030607222540.GA2247@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Luke Kearney , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <002901c32d42$16a4b3d0$230aa8c0@MAGOME> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002901c32d42$16a4b3d0$230aa8c0@MAGOME> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.5 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.55 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic Scripts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2003 22:27:07 -0000 --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 07:13:56AM +0900, Luke Kearney wrote: > For reasons that I don't completely understand one of my machines has > stopped sending mail to root. I was used to getting the periodic output > mailed to me daily and now one of them has stopped. The mail does not app= ear > to be held up anywhere and is not showing up in the queue, so I am a litt= le > confused by it all. Did you check the MSP queue? # mailq -Ac =20 > I cannot find the crontab for the user that runs these daily,weekly,month= ly > scripts and I certainly have no recollection of changing any of these. Can > anyone tell me where to start looking for the culprit ? The periodic scripts are run out of the system crontab /etc/crontab -- you should have lines like these: 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+4mZkdtESqEQa7a0RAuFRAJsFB+0Z5HioiJVR6qHwPOFl7mV3yQCgm5SV +pxXJQ1t5OSXCek6lbtb1jM= =F6EO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--