On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 08:48:24AM -0400, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: > >we have 4 servers running, each sends daily and security run output email each > >day around 3am. Recently one of them stopped sending these messages. In > >looking at the periodic.conf and associated directories, I don't see any > >problems or changes that I am aware of. There are no enrties in cron for it, > >but then again there aren't any entries in the functional servers either. > > > >Is it possible we have disabled something by accident which could stop this one > >server from sending these messages? > > double checked everything just after sending... > > periodic.conf was missing. (doh!)
... but that's OK, as the periodic system will just run using the
default settings from /etc/defaults/periodic.conf -- note the
instructions in that file: /etc/periodic.conf should contain only
those entries you want to be different to the default values.
As for how the periodic scripts get run each night: they are run as
cron jobs, but out of the system crontab in /etc/crontab. That's a
slightly different animal which lives in a parallel universe to the
normal per-user crontabs, which are stored in /var/cron/tabs and
generally accessed via crontab(1).
As for the missing mail, did you check the client mailqueue?
# mailq -Ac
or look at the contents of /var/spool/clientmqueue. If the messages
are held up there, you should investigate what happened to the
sendmail msp queue-runner process which the system will run by default
so long as 'sendmail_enable=YES' or 'sendmail_enable=NO' is in
/etc/rc.conf.
Cheers,
Matthew
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