From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 19:06:08 2005 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 270AB16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:06:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 805FA43D39 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:06:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dot.sn1tch@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 70so918785wra for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:06:07 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=sSwfyWAinRnjHM2aPwmRKD0UkpMhyDaC5PLc8ryUhgKezAlF4s970eX5scLnf8tBJoYZ3gnn9M/bFiJtGVybDr4tIpFIDwmnCdjjcnIJI59j6aCGYEZTc9LfM1pw8cifObwMe8zF5SCicpaNoSOCRjSsYGI5uAuMv54PhDvqdAk= Received: by 10.54.72.9 with SMTP id u9mr36387wra; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 11:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.31.67 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 11:06:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:06:03 -0500 From: sn1tch To: Kevin Kinsey In-Reply-To: <4228AA3C.8090703@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050304170841.GA21793@netbox.yi.org> <4228AA3C.8090703@daleco.biz> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security logs being mailed to root X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: sn1tch List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 19:06:08 -0000 On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:34:36 -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > exp@netbox.yi.org wrote: > > >On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: > > > > > >>When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly > >>security logs and such mailed to root...now since I did a clean > >>install with 5.3 I no longer get anything, when I log in I have no > >>mail...what gives? I enjoyed reading them .. is there a way to get > >>that functionality back? > >> > >> > >>Thanks, > >>Joe > >> > >> > >5.3 also does this by default. Are you sure your computer > >is turned on at the times these mails are sent, in /etc/crontab? > > > > > > And ... > > If the logs and such exist, then syslogd is probably OK. Otherwise > check syslogd first. > > Next, make sure that crond is running. Don't know why it wouldn't > be, be might as well check. > > Then, check sendmail. Depending on settings, this might be the > issue. If syslogd is working as expected, you should find a note > in /var/mail/maillog (about 3:0x a.m. system time) that shows a mail > going to "root@somebox.tld". > > Which brings us to /etc/mail/aliases. Is the alias for "root" pointing > to your email address? > > I'm sure there's stuff I may have missed as well, but here's the start > of a debug checklist. > > HTH, > > Kevin Kinsey Crontab doesnt have any listings and rc.conf shows this... sendmail_enable="NONE" syslogd_flags="-ss" and in /etc/periodic there are dail weekly monthly and security folders. I chose not to build sendmail at all, or any type of mail server for that matter, but why would that affect it because a friend of mine has a fresh install of 5.3 and he gets the logs, no problems. Would a specific option in a custom kernel cause it to not send. syslog.conf shows security.* /var/log/security is there anything else I can show you guys/girls to help out? Thanks for the help