no daily reports after upgrade

cbrace

cbrace

Hi all,

Earlier this week, I upgraded my VPS to 9.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update. It was quick and painless.

One detail: I'm no longer receiving the "daily" and "security" reports from the the server. Postfix is running fine, so it doesn't appear to be a delivery problem. Any thoughts on what may have broken?

TIA
 
Check if the upgrade has changed your /etc/aliases file. Also, while tailing the mailog try sending a mail to root:

[CMD=""]# echo test | sendmail root[/CMD]
 
Thanks. The test mail pointed me in the right direction. These lines were still at the top of /etc/mail/mailer.conf and that was mucking things up:

Code: 
<<<<<<< current version
=======
# $FreeBSD: release/9.1.0/etc/mail/mailer.conf 93858 2002-04-05 04:25:14Z gshapiro $
>>>>>>> 9.1-RELEASE
 
Hi!

I have the same problem, but mailer.conf seems all right and I can send the test email without issue.

I've browsed a bit on crontab and periodic but not found any changes. Well, all that is over my head anyway... ;)

What else could explain it?
 
Thanks for your time.

gkontos said:
Check if cron is running.
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Code: 
% cron
cron: cron already running, pid: 1181
gkontos said:
Also, what is the output of:
# cat /var/log/cron | grep periodic
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Code: 
# cat /var/log/cron | grep periodic
cat: /var/log/cron: Permission denied
# su -
% cat /var/log/cron | grep periodic
Dec 22 03:01:00 Marianne /usr/sbin/cron[89997]: (root) CMD (periodic daily)
Dec 22 04:15:00 Marianne /usr/sbin/cron[95919]: (root) CMD (periodic weekly)
December 22 was the last day of 2012 I used this computer. Then I upgraded FreeBSD to 9.1-RELEASE on January 3. /var/log/cron has a lot of other entries, neither related to periodic.

Could it be simply a false alert, since this computer is not being used a lot? (less than 2-3 hours a day).
 
So, that’s the reason? I’m really sorry, I’m beginning to play with FreeBSD and I wrongly assumed that daily planned tasks would try to run at least once a day, even if the computer was powered off at the time set in crontab.

Thanks for your time, I’ll research more before submitting other questions :r

Best regards,
Juan
 
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