Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 23:25:40 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic Scripts Message-ID: <20030607222540.GA2247@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <002901c32d42$16a4b3d0$230aa8c0@MAGOME> References: <002901c32d42$16a4b3d0$230aa8c0@MAGOME>
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On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 07:13:56AM +0900, Luke Kearney wrote:
> For reasons that I don't completely understand one of my machines has
> stopped sending mail to root. I was used to getting the periodic output
> mailed to me daily and now one of them has stopped. The mail does not appear
> to be held up anywhere and is not showing up in the queue, so I am a little
> confused by it all.
Did you check the MSP queue?
# mailq -Ac
> I cannot find the crontab for the user that runs these daily,weekly,monthly
> scripts and I certainly have no recollection of changing any of these. Can
> anyone tell me where to start looking for the culprit ?
The periodic scripts are run out of the system crontab /etc/crontab --
you should have lines like these:
1 3 * * * root periodic daily
15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly
30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly
Cheers,
Matthew
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