On Thursday 25 January 2007 16:23, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2007 13:38, James Wilkinson wrote: > > Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On two boxes I get messages sumarising completion, sent to root and > > > forwarded to me. A third box, running FC4 like one of the other two, > > > must be running the cron jobs, because the ssh accesses are reported > > > by logwatch, yet I don't get the reports from that box. /etc/aliases > > > names me for receiving root's mail. Have I forgotten somewhere else > > > that it has to be enabled? I've a feeling that there is somewhere > > > else, but I can't think of it. > > > > Stupid question -- you are running a mail server on the third box, > > aren't you? > > > > What do its logs say? > > Darn it - I can't believe it, but there was a typo in > the /etc/postfix/transport file. Can't believe that I didn't spot that > before. Now we'll see whether the next report comes through, and whether > the old ones are queued. > Unfortunately that has only partially solved the problem. I'm now getting logwatch messages, but no cron ones. There is a small backup job due to run twice daily, and I haven't seen any message for it yet. The job clearly ran this afternoon, as I can see files on the backup drive that were not created until this morning. Anne
