On Friday 02 December 2005 07:25, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Yes, last night all the massages I had left in /var/mail/hendrik > vanished *again*. Just like the night before. Of course, by the > time I got to look at my mail, a few new ones had arrived. > > I'm starting to think it's not just a fluke.
This really makes me suspect a cron job gone awry. Check both your crontab and root's, and check everything in /var/log/, too. Also, look closely at applications that are running overnight. If you shut down the computer overnight, and noticed your mail missing when you booted up, then I would check shutdown and startup scripts in /etc/init.d/. If you don't have any new mail yet, what's the modify date of /var/mail/hendrik? It may give you a general idea of when this is happening. Hope that helps, Justin
