CRON message

[R Kimber]

Since upgrading to 9.10 I have started receiving occasional mail from
the CRON daemon saying "Can't send mail: sendmail process failed"

This seems to be a results of:-
"logcheck    if [ -x /usr/sbin/logcheck ]; then nice
-n10 /usr/sbin/logcheck; fi"       (all one line in the file)
in the logcheck entry in cron.d

There are no other problems with cron or with logcheck or with
sendmail that I know of.  It's just this one entry, and it doesn't seem to
happen every time it runs, though I need to check on that more carefully.

Google shows some similar bugs reported in the past, but they are fairly
old. There doesn't seem to be a current bug open in launchpad (judging from
the summaries).

Any ideas what is happening?  Anyone else seen this? Has an old bug
re-surfaced?

- Richard.   (2.6.31-14-generic, AMD phenom2x4)
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Richard Kimber
Political Science Resources
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