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