From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 11:30:12 2004 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 8DAFB16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:30:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12DAC43D31 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:30:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) i8KBU6JG007771 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:30:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i8KBU6mm007764; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:30:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:30:06 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Peter Rosa Message-ID: <20040920113006.GE6502@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Peter Rosa , FreeBSD Questions References: <002701c49ee3$a614ead0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002701c49ee3$a614ead0$3501a8c0@pro.sk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:30:06 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040904, clamav-milter version 0.75l on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: FreeBSD Questions 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: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:30:12 -0000 --A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:30:05AM +0200, Peter Rosa wrote: > I have FreeBSD 4.10-REL-p2, cvsup+make world last week. It happened few > times in last half-year, that server discontinue sending reports from > "periodics daily". I run it manually and see "ps ax", but the only checks > are started are those about security. And the only report send is "securi= ty > report". The "daily report" is never created. This status will remain unt= il > the next update. > Question - what is causing this; has anybody experience with this; how to > repair it without "make world" ? A common cause of this sort of thing is the /var partition filling up -- if /var is full, then you can't send e-mails because you can't write the spool files in /var/spool/mqueue or /var/spool/clientmqueue -- if you're delivering to the same machine, /var/mail will be blocked as well. Other than the usual check for rubbish files: old cores, stuff cluttering up /var/tmp etc. it's a case of hunting for what is hogging the space and doing something to reduce the usage. Check /var/crash -- if you've enabled system core dumps and your system has crashed a few times, you'll find a number of rather large files in there, which you probably won't need any more. Look at eg. MySQL databases, which can grow very quickly if you turn logging on. 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 --A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBTr8+iD657aJF7eIRAjBTAJ4j0ol4rOhLJq0iQgPO4FqysolSrQCgpYQM OY0w7xxCKNKt2mKxesXssac= =Gt3p -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --A9z/3b/E4MkkD+7G--