On Sunday 28 January 2007 23:19, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 26Jan2007 19:25, Anne Wilson <cannewilson(a)tiscali.co.uk>
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