DirectAdmin doesn't send an email when new updates are found

[Zagorax]

[SOLVED]DirectAdmin doesn't send an email when new updates are found

Hi,

Here is my options.conf (at least the part related to cron):

#Cron settings
cron=yes
cron_frequency=daily
email=<myemail>
notifications=yes
da_autoupdate=no
updates=no
webapps_updates=no

I did

./build cron

It's checking for new updates and I'm able to do

./build update_versions

, but I don't get any email from DirectAdmin. Could you help me to find what's wrong?

 

[chatwizrd]

Does the cron actually run? Did you check /var/log/cron or /var/log/cron.log

 

[Zagorax]

Here is the output of 'grep custombuild /var/log/cron':

Apr 29 03:18:01 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[20245]: starting custombuild
Apr 29 03:18:13 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[23277]: finished custombuild
Apr 30 03:42:01 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[25069]: starting custombuild
Apr 30 03:42:13 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[28111]: finished custombuild
May  1 03:27:01 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[4917]: starting custombuild
May  1 03:27:14 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[7955]: finished custombuild
May  2 03:18:01 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[9354]: starting custombuild
May  2 03:18:13 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[12410]: finished custombuild
May  3 04:07:01 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[19397]: starting custombuild
May  3 04:07:13 fs1 run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[22431]: finished custombuild

And here is the content of /etc/cron.daily/custombuild:

#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build update >/dev/null 2>&1
AVAIL_UPDATES="`./build versions_nobold | grep -c -e 'update is available.'`"
if [ "${AVAIL_UPDATES}" -gt 0 ]; then
./build versions_nobold | grep 'update is available.' | mail -s "${AVAIL_UPDATES} updates available for `hostname`" <myemail>
fi
exit 0;

 

[Zagorax]

Ok... I found the problem...

I tried to run custombuild on my own and I got:

./custombuild: line 6: mail: command not found

Will I break something installing sendmail?

 

[chatwizrd]

Just install mailx

yum -y install mailx

Do not install sendmail

 

[Zagorax]

Thank you very much chatwizrd. Solved.

 

[pucky]

I dont think mailx is going to fix anything and here is why;

Notifications worked when i used Custombuild 1.2 then i changed to Customerbuild 2.0.
Notifications no longer work even though the options.conf is exactly the same.

 

[Zagorax]

I dont think mailx is going to fix anything and here is why;

Notifications worked when i used Custombuild 1.2 then i changed to Customerbuild 2.0.
Notifications no longer work even though the options.conf is exactly the same.

Actually, installing mailx solved the problem. But I'm still using custombuild 1.2.

 

[pucky]

Actually, installing mailx solved the problem. But I'm still using custombuild 1.2.

Thats why. Now if you go to 2.0 you will no longer get notifications.

[root@la1010 cron.daily]# cat custombuild
#!/bin/sh
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build update >/dev/null 2>&1
AVAIL_UPDATES="`./build versions_nobold | grep -c -e 'update is available.'`"
if [ "${AVAIL_UPDATES}" -gt 0 ]; then
./build versions_nobold | grep 'update is available.' | mail -s "${AVAIL_UPDATES} updates available for `hostname`" [email protected]
./build update_webapps
fi
exit 0;

 

[DirectAdmin Support]

Notifications no longer work even though the options.conf is exactly the same.

just make sure that you're not using a 1.2 options.conf.
The CB2 options.conf is quite different.. but the "cron" section will be the same.

If you're not getting updates, run the script manually:

cd /etc/cron.daily
./custombuild

to see what you get.

Also, add:

root: admin

to your /etc/aliases file, so that you get any emails about this cronjob sent to your "admin" account, if any output is generated. (exim doesn't accept root emails)

John

 

[ssmmdd]

I'm not getting them either.

I was, then they suddenly stopped.

My box is running Debian.

This is the error I get if I run it manually:

/usr/lib/sendmail: No such file or directory
"/root/dead.letter" 14/537
. . . message not sent.

Any ideas?

Cheers.