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Date:      Sat, 16 Feb 2002 04:19:00 -0800
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        G D McKee <freebsd@gdmckee.com>
Cc:        "Freebsd-Questions@Freebsd. Org (E-mail)" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Nightly EMails
Message-ID:  <20020216041900.D36782@blossom.cjclark.org>
In-Reply-To: <009b01c1b660$da2cf6a0$0a00a8c0@p1000>; from freebsd@gdmckee.com on Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 08:39:23PM -0000
References:  <009b01c1b660$da2cf6a0$0a00a8c0@p1000>

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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

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