Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 22:21:57 +0800 (WST) From: Michael Kennett <mike@laurasia.com.au> To: big-sky@altavista.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: daily run output Message-ID: <199911081421.WAA08441@laurasia.com.au> In-Reply-To: <000601bf29f0$0e3e0a60$0201010a@cmr.net> from Mark Einreinhof at "Nov 8, 99 07:49:19 am"
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Mark wrote: > >What does this mean in my daily run out put? > >Mail in local queue: > Mail Queue (1 request) >--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ >CAA15051* (no control file) Good question Mark. This output has been produced by the `mailq' (1) command, and it gives a summary of the queued mail that is awaiting delivery. So, why is there just this one piece of mail, every night? The daily output run is fired off from cron. If you have a look at the /etc/crontab file, you'll see that the daily administration run is fired off with the command: periodic daily 2>&1 | sendmail root So.... the mail queue entry that you are seeing in your daily output is the mail that is being generated by the daily run (!). To test this, try the following from the command line (enter in the commands prefixed with the '$' prompt; sample output is shown): $ mailq Mail queue is empty $ ( echo foo ; sleep 15 ) | sendmail root & [1] 9246 Mail Queue (1 request) --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ WAA09246* (no control file) $ mailq Mail queue is empty Hopefully you'll be able to convince yourself that the mail queue entry reported by the daily admin. run is just the output of that admin run! Have fun, Mike Kennett (mike@laurasia.com.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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