On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 04:22, John Swartzentruber wrote:
I *may* have found the problem. It seems everything I thought was happening was really a red herring. I believe the problem was not that the logwatch messages were not being sent or received, it was that the logwatch in the cron was never finishing. Before I turned on Arthur, I tried running /etc/cron.daily/00-logwatch directly. It just sat there for a long time. Then a light went on in my head. I have an NFS mount for arthur in my /etc/fstab on buster. When I umount that, 00-logwatch finishs when I run in directly. Something in the logwatch process appears to be waiting for /mnt/arthur to be valid before the program finishes.
Well.. did it solve your problems then??? Would make sense, but I can't understand why cron would just complain and get on with life??
Yes, that solved the problem. I've been getting the messages ever since I unmounted that one thing. I have no idea why it caused everything to hang for so long. It seems that it would eventually timeout and get on with life, as you say.
