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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