Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:04:50 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: periodic Message-ID: <20030416140450.GB56101@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20030416093707.E21944@mail.wirewalk.com> References: <20030416093707.E21944@mail.wirewalk.com>
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 09:41:53AM -0400, synrat wrote:
> after upgrading from 4.7 to 4.8 I'm not getting any periodic output.
> I run periodic daily manually and it finished without errors and output,
> ( I don't know if it should have output in cli )
> but I got no e-mail notificataion. rescheduling it to run isn't a big
> deal, but why am I not getting the output via email ?
If you'd modified your /etc/periodic.conf to redirect the standard
nightly e-mails, I assume you'ld remember that you had done that.
So: probably because your sendmail setup didn't survive your upgrade
very well. Can you send a test message while logged in as root to
root?
# mail -v -s test root <<E_O_M
test message
E_O_M
Check the delivery status of the message if it doesn't come through
straight away:
# mailq -v=20
# mailq -Ac -v
and look for clues in the maillog:
# tail -20 /var/log/maillog
One thing that may be biting you is if you've happened to replace the
/etc/mail/aliases file with the default version. That means mail to
root will get delivered to the /var/mail/root mailbox. Almost
invariably this is not what you want, so make sure you've aliased
root's email address so the mail gets delivered to a real person.
Cheers,
Matthew
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