On 12/19/15 09:21, frcc wrote: > Hi Folks > New here. > Running ver 5.8 on an ibme330 sever. > > Usually get daily reports for disk usage etc > vial mail system on server. > > Following a power interruption I get no more > local mail as user or as Root. ... > > Is there something to re-start in the > daily scheduling system cron?
no. OpenBSD is the king of "Just Works", so any time you have to do something like that, you have broken something. > .or. > can someone point me in a general direction > for docs to look at. The process is simple -- root runs a cron job, the output is captured as mail for user root. What happens then is up to what happens to mail sent to root on your system. Follow the trail ... * Is your date/time correct? * Is the cron job still there? (/bin/sh /etc/daily) * What happens when you manually invoke the cron job's script? * What is in /var/cron/log ? * What is in /var/mail/root ? * What is in /var/log/maillog ? * Can you send mail as root to whereever you had the reports go before? Wild guess: you did something which broke something (for example, mail), but didn't actually activate the change by rebooting. So all works great until you reboot (or the power does it for you)...and months later, you wonder "What happened last night?" Wasn't last night. Yet another reason bragging about uptime is just plain wrong: not only are you running out of date software, but your most recent changes may not be taking effect as you think they will on next boot. Nick.
