[SOLVED] CentOS - Postfix

sburnay · 09-09-2011, 09:29 AM

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Hi!

I've configured a CentOS 5.6 to perform Proxy (squid), FTP (VSFTPd) and Mail-Relay (Postfix).

I can successfully send mails via telnet and/or sendmail command to my relay hosts.

Problem is, mails are not being sent when cron tasks take place.

here is my /etc/crontab specifying the MAILTO=root directive

Code:

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
10 0 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
17 15 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.spa

And here is part of my /etc/aliases which makes all mails to root

Code:

be sent to myUser@myRelayDomain
# Person who should get root's mail
#root:          marc
root:           myUser@myRelayDomain

If there is aditional information required for the solve, I'll provide it to you.

With my best regards,
sburnay

kbp · 09-09-2011, 11:27 PM

If you become root and type 'mail' are there any emails shown ?

sburnay · 09-12-2011, 04:35 AM

When I type mail I'm prompted with a list of 6 mails, the last one, from septembre 5:

Quote:

[root@spa-proxy ~]# mail
Mail version 8.1 6/6/93. Type ? for help.
"/var/spool/mail/root": 5 messages 5 unread
>U 1 logwatch@localhost.l Thu Sep 1 04:02 166/4583 "Logwatch for localhos"
U 2 root@localhost.local Thu Sep 1 04:42 27/1013 "Cron <root@localhost>"
U 3 logwatch@spautores.p Fri Sep 2 04:02 286/12589 "Logwatch for spa-prox"
U 4 logwatch@spautores.p Sat Sep 3 04:02 56/1876 "Logwatch for spa-prox"
U 5 logwatch@spautores.p Sun Sep 4 04:02 56/1875 "Logwatch for spa-prox"
& quit
Held 5 messages in /var/spool/mail/root

It sugests that something I've done Septembre 6 made the system not to send those mail notifications.

Any ideas?

kbp · 09-12-2011, 07:45 AM

When did you edit /etc/aliases ? .. did you run the 'newaliases' command afterwards ?

sburnay · 09-12-2011, 09:45 AM

Quote:

When did you edit /etc/aliases ? .. did you run the 'newaliases' command afterwards ?

Yes, I did, those aliases have been updated.

I solved the issue.

The problem was regarding the fact that I've edited crontab with nano instead of just using 'crontab -e'.

It still is a strange bug/feature from (at least) this CentOS distro, from what I've seen in other troubleshooting, whet you go to 'nano /etc/crontab' you are not editing the same file as when you do a 'crontab -e'

P.S.: how do I marl the post/thread as solved?

Thank you very much for the time and dedication