Cron message puzzle

James Wilkinson fedora at aprilcottage.co.uk
Thu Jan 25 13:38:03 UTC 2007


Anne Wilson wrote:
> On two boxes I get messages sumarising completion, sent to root and
> forwarded to me. A third box, running FC4 like one of the other two,
> must be running the cron jobs, because the ssh accesses are reported
> by logwatch, yet I don't get the reports from that box. /etc/aliases
> names me for receiving root's mail. Have I forgotten somewhere else
> that it has to be enabled? I've a feeling that there is somewhere
> else, but I can't think of it.

Stupid question -- you are running a mail server on the third box,
aren't you?

What do its logs say?

James.

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