Small update: Now that root mail is working, I have this morning received in my email the output of logwatch - which is great - I notice that (unlike with my previous Fedora installs) it includes a "cron" section. In this I can see the output of the cron jobs run as my user (mark) as well as those run by root. --------------------- Cron Begin ------------------------ (snip...) CMDOUT (Warning! The file Tesfile exists!) CMDOUT (Warning! The file Tesfile exists!) CMDOUT (Warning! The file Tesfile exists!) CMDOUT (Warning! The file Tesfile exists!) CMDOUT (Warning! The file Tesfile exists!) CMDOUT (Warning! The file Tesfile exists!) (snip...) ---------------------- Cron End ------------------------- This is better than nothing, but I would still prefer to get the output of cron jobs put in my user mail file. The test example I gave yesterday is in fact based on a real-life case. I have a job that runs hourly from cron. Occasionally this process fails (for reasons I won't bore the list with) and leaves a lock-file in place - a will then refuse to run again until someone (me) has cleaned up after it. The only way I even know that this has happened is accuse I have another little hourly cron job that checks for the presence of the lock-file and reports only if it exists. If I have to rely on the daily logwatch output it could conceivably be up to 23 hours before I even know that the job is not working... So - how to get my user system-mail back? Thanks for all the help so far... Mark -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
