From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 4 09:23:21 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 F3DFB37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 09:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net (web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net [206.47.131.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFACC43FB1 for ; Fri, 4 Jul 2003 09:23:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@hawk-systems.com) Received: (qmail 87453 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2003 16:23:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws1) (24.157.103.51) by web1.nexusinternetsolutions.net with SMTP; 4 Jul 2003 16:23:18 -0000 From: "Dave [Hawk-Systems]" To: Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 12:23:17 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20030704130444.GC69059@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: RE: daily /security run output via periodic - stopped 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: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 16:23:21 -0000 >On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: >> >we have 4 servers running, each sends daily and security run output >email each >> >day around 3am. Recently one of them stopped sending these messages. In >> >looking at the periodic.conf and associated directories, I don't see any >> >problems or changes that I am aware of. There are no enrties in >cron for it, >> >but then again there aren't any entries in the functional servers either. >> > >> >Is it possible we have disabled something by accident which could >stop this one >> >server from sending these messages? >> >> double checked everything just after sending... >> >> periodic.conf was missing. (doh!) > >... but that's OK, as the periodic system will just run using the >default settings from /etc/defaults/periodic.conf -- note the >instructions in that file: /etc/periodic.conf should contain only >those entries you want to be different to the default values. and the different values were where each of the reports should be emailed to. >As for how the periodic scripts get run each night: they are run as >cron jobs, but out of the system crontab in /etc/crontab. That's a >slightly different animal which lives in a parallel universe to the >normal per-user crontabs, which are stored in /var/cron/tabs and >generally accessed via crontab(1). that I didn't know, but do now. Thanks >As for the missing mail, did you check the client mailqueue? probably dunped into whatever the default is... root? Thanks Dave