Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 23:25:40 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Periodic Scripts Message-ID: <20030607222540.GA2247@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <002901c32d42$16a4b3d0$230aa8c0@MAGOME> References: <002901c32d42$16a4b3d0$230aa8c0@MAGOME>
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--PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 07:13:56AM +0900, Luke Kearney wrote: > For reasons that I don't completely understand one of my machines has > stopped sending mail to root. I was used to getting the periodic output > mailed to me daily and now one of them has stopped. The mail does not app= ear > to be held up anywhere and is not showing up in the queue, so I am a litt= le > confused by it all. Did you check the MSP queue? # mailq -Ac =20 > I cannot find the crontab for the user that runs these daily,weekly,month= ly > scripts and I certainly have no recollection of changing any of these. Can > anyone tell me where to start looking for the culprit ? The periodic scripts are run out of the system crontab /etc/crontab -- you should have lines like these: 1 3 * * * root periodic daily 15 4 * * 6 root periodic weekly 30 5 1 * * root periodic monthly Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+4mZkdtESqEQa7a0RAuFRAJsFB+0Z5HioiJVR6qHwPOFl7mV3yQCgm5SV +pxXJQ1t5OSXCek6lbtb1jM= =F6EO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--
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