>On Sunday 28 January 2007 23:19, Cameron Simpson wrote: >> On 26Jan2007 19:25, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> | 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. >> >> Are they being delivered to the machine itself instead? I have noticed that >> some jobs deliver to root@localhost or some icky variant like that, and >> some do not. Annoying. >> >> Is there a /var/log/maillog file tracing mail delivery? (Possibly >> another syslog file.) > >Hi, Cameron. I can't understand what's happening. I have been through every >logfile that might have the remotest connection with this, and can find no >sign of the messages. For that matter, I can find no sign that the cron job >has actually run today - except that files created as late as 11:40 today are >on the backup disk. > >I'm totally foxed! Anne, do you see anything relevant in /var/log/cron? (Sorry if this has already been covered...) Cheers, Terry.
