CRON - Stopped emailing me

[tlchost]

CRON no longer emails me with those pithy messages....like it check the time server...and logcheck from portsentry. Has there been a recent change in DA that prevents the CRON emails from being generated.

What should I check/modify to resume getting the friendly reminders? (Note: I could care less about the timeserver, but it would be nice to know that postsentry whacked a spammer, etc.

Thanks

 

[nobaloney]

Ok, Thom, we won't pity your message, however pithy they may be.

I know of no changes which should prevent you getting emails from crond; I continue to get mine.

You might want to set up a cronjob to email you at a specific time, then immediately thereafter check your exim logs.

Jeff

 

[floyd]

exigrep 'Cron' /var/log/exim/mainlog

will show you if the messages are being sent or not.

Also portsentry does not whack spammers. Portsentry blocks connections to unauthorized ports.