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
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