[PLUG] Why Lost Mail From Root?

Mark Turner amerine at gmail.com
Fri Dec 22 17:17:01 UTC 2006


Is there an entry for root in your /etc/aliases file?

With pflogsumm I have found it easier to just mail the results from
the cron job. For example here is the line from one of my  mail
servers:

45 0 * * * /usr/sbin/pflogsumm -d yesterday -u 100 -h 100
/var/log/mail.log.0 |/usr/bin/mail -s "newberry - Postfix daily mail
summary" serveradmins at amerine.net

I rotate the log at 12:25 am and have pflogsumm work on teh previous
days log at 12:45am. I just pipe the results to "mail".

-Mark

On 12/22/06, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>    I need some help figuring out what's happening here.
>
>    The script, /etc/cron.daily/1pflogsumm, is apparently run but the results
> do not show up in my inbox.
>
>    As root, I just ran it again manually, then checked mailq:
>
> -Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
> 6ABE713493*   55991 Fri Dec 22 06:31:16  root at appl-ecosys.com
>                                           rshepard at salmo.appl-ecosys.com
>
>    This tells me that the script ran and the results sent by root to me. An
> immediate re-invocation of mailq showed an empty queue.
>
>    /var/log/maillog contains:
>
> Dec 22 06:31:16 salmo postfix/pickup[19228]: 6ABE713493: uid=0 from=<root>
> Dec 22 06:31:16 salmo postfix/cleanup[8154]: 6ABE713493: message-id=<20061222143
> 116.6ABE713493 at salmo.appl-ecosys.com>
> Dec 22 06:31:17 salmo postfix/qmgr[5696]: 6ABE713493:
> from=<root at appl-ecosys.com>, size=55991, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Dec 22 06:31:37 salmo postfix/local[21632]: 6ABE713493:
> to=<rshepard at salmo.appl-ecosys.com>, orig_to=<rshepard at salmo>, relay=local, delay=21, status=sent
> (delivered to command: /usr/bin/procmail)
> Dec 22 06:31:37 salmo postfix/qmgr[5696]: 6ABE713493: removed
>
>    But, it has not shown up in my inbox -- nor any other mail file if
> mis-directed by procmail.
>
>    How should I test to determine where and why it got lost? Other messages
> -- including some spam that the greylisting should have blocked -- make
> in through the process, so I'm totally puzzled why this one message has not
> been properly delivered the past three days.
>
> Rich
>
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