CRON message
R Kimber
richardkimber at btinternet.com
Fri Nov 13 10:41:33 UTC 2009
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:45:54 -0500
Rashkae wrote:
> > Since upgrading to 9.10 I have started receiving occasional mail from
> > the CRON daemon saying "Can't send mail: sendmail process failed"
> have you checked your logcheck.conf file to see where logcheck is trying
> to e-mail it's reports? Have you ever received an e-mail from logcheck?
> If it's workign properly, you should. I'm guessing logcheck is unable
> to send it's e-mail, and kicks back the error to stdout, which cron
> dutifully e-mail to you instead (that's what cron does to output from
> the programs it runs)
No, I get other messages from logcheck OK. I'm currently working on the
theory that something else happens that prevents the sendmail process from
working, but I haven't had time to investigate it yet.
- Richard.
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