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

Tue Jul 25 13:35:06 UTC 2006
Steven Vishoot <sir_funzone at yahoo.com>


--- "William L. Maltby" <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 08:34 -0400, Ugo Bellavance
> wrote:
> > Mark Schoonover wrote:
> > > Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> 	I have a cronjob that executes a script that
> has some echo
> > > statements
> > >> in it and the commands in it also generate
> output (it copies files,
> > >> reloads services, etc...).
> > >>
> > >> 	Recently, cron stopped sending its output by
> e-mail.  I restarted
> > >> cron, without success.  Any ideas where I shoud
> start to debug this?
> > >><snip>
> 
> I hope this isn't too silly, but did you examine
> /var/log/cron? Might be
> a clue if you can look around the day it last sent
> and the next day.
> 
> Another possible is /var/log/maillog.
> 
> HTH
> -- 
> Bill
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is it just cron not sending mail or is it any mail not
being sent?

if it is none being sent try restarting sendmail.

my .02

Steven
 

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