[741] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: daily output
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Feb 4 13:22:06 1996
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 13:18:09 -0500
To: Eric Ford <eford@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[740] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> davidz's question reminded me of something I've been meening to ask
> for sometime. What exactly are these messages in my daily output
> supposed to tell me?
Umm, these are bad. They indicate that you're seeing a problem
where sendmail is not running your queue periodically. At some point
in our installation there was a bug such that a necessary crontab entry
was not installed (to run the mail queue periodically).
You probably still want to deliver this mail, even though some of it is
sort of old. So, to run the queue _now_, as root do:
sendmail -v -q
Then, run "crontab -e" as root and make sure the marked line
is present.
#minute hour mday month wday command
#
*/10 * * * * /usr/libexec/atrun
--------------> */30 * * * * /usr/sbin/sendmail -q
#
--jhawk
