Hello

I have had 3 crontab jobs that I made to run 2 backup scripts, and rootkit, running for a year now. These would run through the night and e-mail me the output. These appear to have stopped running, or at least they no longer e-mail me results. I have verified that cron is running in Ksysguard, and all appears to be well. What can I check to see where the problem is?

On a related note, my antivirus would update itself every morning and e-mail me as well, but that seems to have stopped as well.

I receive all other e-mail fine, just not when e-mailed from root. Any suggestions on this would be appreciated.

Thanks
Harpo

Hello

An update to my earlier post. It appears as though the cron jobs are running, but I am no longer receiving the e-mail output from the jobs. What can I be looking for to see why? All other e-mail sends and receives just fine. Any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Harpo

How did you specify the mail recipient for crond? By default cron uses sendmail and sends mail to the user owning the crontab. This behaviour can be overridden by the -m option to crond and defining a MAILTO variable in the crontab, respectively. Maybe, did the system change some of this setup recently?

I specified mail recipient by having MAILTO={my e-mail address}. There have been no changes to either cron, or e-mail. However, I do update my system regularily through the automatic updater. I suppose there is a chance that an update has affected this somehow.

Harpo

Update:

I ran rcpostfix, and found it to be running. I also ran mailq, and found all my emails listed with either:
connection timed out
temporarily disbled:connection timed out.

Would anyone be able to tell me what this means exactly? Why would this all of a sudden start happening?

Any help appreciated.

Harpo