[PLUG] cron.daily scripts not reporting if they have been run

[Joe Pruett]

>   A couple of days ago I noticed that my mail no longer included log reports
> for /var/log/secure and /var/log/maillog. Both calling scriptes are in
> /etc/cron.daily and syslog.d is running (with the -m 0 option I added a
> couple of days ago). Could that option have stopped the scripts from
> running? My assumption is that the scripts are being run each night, but the
> summary results are not being mailed to me. Perhaps that assumption is
> wrong, and the scripts are just not being run at all.
>
>   /etc/logrotate.conf specifies daily rotation, and that's occurring.
>
>   This happened once before, a number of years ago, and I no longer have a
> record of what I did to get the log reports started again. Any and all
> suggestions greatly appreciated.

see if you have a /var/log/cron file to see if cron is running the jobs. 
then check your maillog to see if you see signs of messages being sent 
around the time you expect.