[CentOS] Re: Cron not sending e-mails anymore

[Ugo Bellavance]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance schrieb:
> 
>> I found something.
>>
>> The script does a -HUP on sendmail, so here is what I see in maillog is:
>>
> Why does it do so?

Because the script's purpose is to sync sendmail configs among many mail
servers.

> 
>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[19016]: restarting /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> due to signal
>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[19018]: restarting /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> due to signal
>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sm-msp-queue[19032]: restarting
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail due to signal
>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[25475]: k6QE01aW025475: from=root,
>> size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, relay=root at localhost
>>  
>>
> That is not really a mail: it has zero size and zero recipient. Could be
> a script that probes whether the MTA is alife.

Ok.

> 
>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[25579]: starting daemon (8.13.7):
>> queueing at 00:15:00
>> Jul 26 10:00:02 server sendmail[25581]: starting daemon (8.13.7): SMTP
>>
>>
>> It looks like sendmail may not be ready yet...
>>  
>>
> Sendmail restarts as to what the log says.
> 
>> Any ideas?
>>
> `mailq -Ac -v' has content? Then there is a problem with mail
> submission, as cron directly injects the mail.

/var/spool/clientmqueue is empty
                Total requests: 0


Thanks for your input,

Ugo

> 
> Alexander