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

Thu Jul 27 16:31:19 UTC 2006
Ugo Bellavance <ugob at camo-route.com>

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> Any ideas how I could make my script so that I can submit the mail
> without problem even if I do a killall -HUP sendmail during the script?
> 

I finally found that the sendmail HUP was the problem.

> Regards,
> 
> Ugo