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

Wed Jul 26 14:20:12 UTC 2006
Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org>

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?

>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.

>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.

Alexander