From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 15:25:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2C7AC16A403 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from abid@saigol.biz) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 377B343D5A for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:24:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from abid@saigol.biz) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([206.248.137.162]) by VL-MO-MR002.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0J6D002DG1HJWR50@VL-MO-MR002.ip.videotron.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:24:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 11:24:53 -0400 From: Abid Saigol To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <451D3AC5.8000703@saigol.biz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Subject: Periodic Emails are not coming X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:25:22 -0000 Hello, Recently, the daily/weekly/monthly periodic emails have stopped coming from one of my servers. There were no changes made of the system, except that part of the filesystem was exported as an NFS share. These shares are setup on another FreeBSD machine for automount. I have checked my /etc and /var/logs and cannot find any reason for the mails to have stopped. Any help and guidance will be greatly appreciated. Here are some of the relevant files: /etc/crontab ========= # /etc/crontab - root's crontab for FreeBSD # # $FreeBSD: src/etc/crontab,v 1.32 2002/11/22 16:13:39 tom Exp $ # SHELL=/bin/sh PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/var/log # #minute hour mday month wday who command # */5 * * * * root /usr/libexec/atrun # # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot. */11 * * * * operator /usr/libexec/save-entropy # # Rotate log files every hour, if necessary. 0 * * * * root newsyslog # # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly # # Adjust the time zone if the CMOS clock keeps local time, as opposed to # UTC time. See adjkerntz(8) for details. 1,31 0-5 * * * root adjkerntz -a /etc/periodic.conf ============= daily_clean_hoststat_enable="NO" daily_status_mail_rejects_enable="NO" daily_status_include_submit_mailq="NO" daily_submit_queuerun="NO" /var/log/cron [for 3am when daily is supposed to run] ====================================== Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25669]: (root) CMD (newsyslog) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25671]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/newsales.php) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25672]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/newlisting.php) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25673]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/mkthumb.php) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25670]: (operator) CMD (/usr/libexec/save-entropy) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25674]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) Sep 29 03:00:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25675]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/parselogs.php) Sep 29 03:01:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25695]: (root) CMD (periodic daily) Sep 29 03:01:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25696]: (root) CMD (adjkerntz -a) Sep 29 03:02:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25808]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/mkthumb.php) Sep 29 03:02:27 server cron[25694]: (root) MAIL (mailed 123 bytes of output but got status 0x004b ) Sep 29 03:04:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25955]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/mkthumb.php) Sep 29 03:05:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25960]: (www) CMD (/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/phpcli/ebay/newsales.php) Sep 29 03:05:00 server /usr/sbin/cron[25959]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun) /var/log/maillog [running courier-mta] ========================== Sep 29 03:00:11 server courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=Fri Sep 29 03:05:11 2006, wakeup time=Fri Sep 29 03:05:11 2006, queuedelivering=0, inprogress=0 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: SHUTDOWN: respawnlo limit reached, system inactive. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Loading STATIC transport module libraries. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Courier 0.53.2 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installing [0/0] Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installing local Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installed: module.local - Courier 0.53.2 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installing esmtp Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installed: module.esmtp - Courier 0.53.2 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installing dsn Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Installed: module.dsn - Courier 0.53.2 Copyright 1999-2005 Double Precision, Inc. Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Initializing local Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Initializing esmtp Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Initializing dsn Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Started exec ./courierlocal, pid=25964, maxdels=10, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=1 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Started exec ./courieresmtp, pid=25965, maxdels=40, maxhost=4, maxrcpt=100 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Started exec ./courierdsn, pid=25966, maxdels=4, maxhost=1, maxrcpt=1 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: queuelo=200, queuehi=400 Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgq Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Purging /var/spool/courier/msgs Sep 29 03:05:11 server courierd: Waiting. shutdown time=Fri Sep 29 04:05:11 2006, wakeup time=Fri Sep 29 04:05:11 2006, queuedelivering=0, inprogress=0 The only anomalous entry is in the cron log at 3:02, but nothing in the maillog to reflect that. Thanks in advance for any and all help. Abid