From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 16 4:19: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0E237B400 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 04:19:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020216121901.WWBX2626.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:19:01 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1GCJ0r43230; Sat, 16 Feb 2002 04:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 04:19:00 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: G D McKee Cc: "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org (E-mail)" Subject: Re: Nightly EMails Message-ID: <20020216041900.D36782@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <009b01c1b660$da2cf6a0$0a00a8c0@p1000> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <009b01c1b660$da2cf6a0$0a00a8c0@p1000>; from freebsd@gdmckee.com on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:39:23PM -0000 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:39:23PM -0000, G D McKee wrote: > Hi all > > The nightly Email seemed to stop a couple of nights ago. Not done anything > to the box lately. Running exim as MTA but mail is fine. Did a ps aux and > found loads of stuff relating to the periodic routines. The load average is > 0 - but they seem to have hung. Got another box as well and it is fine - > been getting the emails. Logged in the logs and can't find any reference to > periodic in there. > > How can I debug this problem? Check cron.log and maillog to see if the jobs are run and if anything is being mailed. Also have a look at, /var/log/*.{to,yester}day to see if they are being updated. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message