On Monday 29 January 2007 17:19, T. Horsnell wrote: > >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...) > I didn't, this morning, but it could have been overlooked, because I found one a short while ago for 16:30. Anne
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