I have a similiar or perhaps the same problem. After a reboot, Amanda 
emails backup summaries for about a day. After that it stops. If I 
manually run amcheck (provided there is a problem) after it stops, it 
sends an email but anything initiated by the cron does not.

Both root's and amanda's mailboxs are empty.

I'm running RH7.3.

donald.ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com wrote:
> Kanwar:
> 
> Check the contents of your root user's mailbox on this system.  If cron 
> is not completely configured to send e-mails to the accounts which run 
> the cron commands, then the e-mails from cron have probably ended up in 
> the root mailbox.  Anything sent to standard out/error from a cron 
> process will be mailed somewhere, unless that functionality is disabled.
> 
> I am more used to individual crontab files, which gives cron the best
> clue as to which user ID receives the e-mailed output, but that should
> also work here (although I have no experience with the version of cron
> that you are using).  Start out with a simple "Hello, world" type of 
> cron entry and track down the output from there.
> 
> Run something like the following for a few minutes to track down the 
> processes and where they lead.  It will give you more insight into
> how e-mail from cron is handled.
> 
> * * * * *	amanda	echo "Hello World" && sleep 45 && echo "Hello,
> Again"
> 
> Then, do a ps command to find the pipeline:
> 	ps -fea |grep "Hello"
> 
> Then, run lsof on the processes you found to see where all the file 
> connections go
> 	lsof -p <process ID1> -p <process ID2> ...
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Don
> 
> Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
> E-mail:  Donald.Ritchey AT exeloncorp DOT com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M3 Freak [mailto:m3freak AT rogers DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 9:15 AM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Amanda not sending emails
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have amanda set up and it runs great, however I'm experiencing one
> problem and I don't know how to fix it.  This is what I have setup in
> the "/etc/crontab" file:
> 
> # amanda
> 00 15 * * 1-5 amanda /usr/sbin/amcheck -m DailySet1
> 01 0 * * 2-6 amanda /usr/sbin/amdump DailySet1 && mt -f /dev/nst0
> rewoffl
> 
> I don't think I've set that up incorrectly, however I'm not getting
> emails from amanda after a backup is performed, or if any problems are
> found with the tape (e.g. user forgot to change tapes).  The really
> strange part is that if I "su" as the amanda user, and then run amreport
> on the log file manually, I get an email right away.  I can also run
> amcheck with the "m" flag, and an email is sent immediately.
> 
> Any ideas?  BTW, I'm running a RH9 system.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kanwar Sandhu
> 
> 
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