email of log messages

Robert Slade ubtu at bathnetworks.com
Sun Feb 5 11:52:56 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-05 at 22:41 +1100, Russell Cook wrote:
> I don't know what I've done but it's evidently something. Cron and
> other system tasks are no longer being emailed to root. This is on my
> breezy server and dapper desktop.  It's since the beginning of Feb
> this year.
> 
> imap mail and fetchmail are both working on the breezy server so I
> can't think of what I've changed (although it's obviously something)
> 
> Any ideas on what I should look for to turn this feature back on?
> 
> Thanks

Russell,

Have a look at /etc/aliases it maybe redirecting the mail to a different
address.

ISTR that cron etc uses postfix to actually send the mail, is this
running?

Rob








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