From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 29 15:35:01 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 C56D216A407 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:35:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net) Received: from mail.ecommerce.com (mail.ecommerce.com [80.121.204.32]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE49F43D73 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:35:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lauasanf@wilderness.homeip.net) Received: (qmail 18839 invoked by uid 399); 29 Sep 2006 15:50:49 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?172.31.215.2?) (80.121.204.1) by mail.opentransfer.com with SMTP; 29 Sep 2006 15:50:49 -0000 Message-ID: <451D3C83.3050702@wilderness.homeip.net> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:32:19 -0500 From: Drew Sanford User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060926) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" References: <451D3AC5.8000703@saigol.biz> <451D3BEE.1050705@veldy.net> In-Reply-To: <451D3BEE.1050705@veldy.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 15:35:01 -0000 Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Abid Saigol wrote: >> 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: > Have you inadvertently aliased the root user to another user? Or > perhaps you deleted an alias and should be looking in the "root" mailbox? > I have virtual mail setup on my systems and I lost periodic emails as > well until I configured postfix correctly to consider my local > machine's hostname as an acceptable recipient. I now alias root to > the virtual user I want to receive these emails. I had this same thing happen recently on one of my machines, but it was one I use for my desktop. They stopped for me when I installed KDE, upgrading from enlightenment. I don't know if there's something going on with a particular update or not, but honestly, the mails don't even appear to be getting generated, which is to say, I don't know if the job is even being run. Can you determine if the job is being run for you or not?