> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:04:48 -0700 (PDT) > From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > Subject: [PLUG] Logs and Reporting ... Again
> Something broke here and I've no idea where to look. Not all scripts in > /etc/cron.daily are being run (specifically 1pflogsumm) while 0logwatch, > logrotate, slocate and (presumably) others do run. > > I activated the 1pflogsumm in root's crontab, but now that's apparently > not running, either. At least, I'm not seeing the summary reports in my > inbox each morning. > > What's the appropriate approach to identifying the problem so it can be > fixed? > > Rich > If you're not receiving any mail from cron jobs, you might want to check the permissions on your mail spool file, such as: /var/spool/mail/rshepard (or whatever is your own userid on the system). On my system, they would look like: -rw-r--r-- 1 rshepard mail 0 2009-03-24 06:17 /var/spool/mail/rshepard . If something changed the permissions from 644 as above to 640 or 600, it could block your local mail handler (like postfix) from writing to that. Robert
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