From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 4 18:34:41 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 1BE3016A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:34:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 960E143D54 for ; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 18:34:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:38:15 -0600 Message-ID: <4228AA3C.8090703@daleco.biz> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:34:36 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: exp@netbox.yi.org References: <20050304170841.GA21793@netbox.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <20050304170841.GA21793@netbox.yi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Mar 2005 18:38:16.0529 (UTC) FILETIME=[5464D410:01C520E9] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: sn1tch Subject: Re: security logs being mailed to root 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: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:34:41 -0000 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