Recent problem with anacron cron.daily hanging.

[Georg Sauthoff]

On 2007-02-19, Adam Funk <a24061 at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi,

[..]
> The strange thing is that I'm having this problem on only one of two
> Ubuntu edgy machines, both running the same kernel (2.6.17-11-generic
> #2 SMP, although on different hardware).

> I would be very grateful for debugging advice!

2 advices:
- Do you have looked at the log files under /var/log ? Perhaps this
helps to identify a reason.
- Do you have set a mail alias for root?[1] Anacron mails output from jobs
(i.e. errors) to the root user.  

Best regards
Georg Sauthoff

[1] you can check via grep ^root /etc/aliases - more info aliases(5)