[ILUG] Debian Cronjob Question

[Ryan Frederick]

Perhaps `newaliases` needs to be re-run?  First thing that comes to my mind.

Ryan


On 10/27/2010 10:12 AM, Brian O'Mahony wrote:
> Ive just P2V'd a Debian 4.0 box to our VM cluster, as im planning to move over to a virtual environment around Christmas time as the Hardware is currently out of date.
> 
> Everything is working fine, I have renamed the server and it works fine. Except the emails from cronjobs don't arrive to my email account.
> 
> Upon reading /var/log/exim4/mainlog, I notice that the mails are being sent from the root account *TO* the root account, via the smtp server, which of course is wrong.
> 
> 2010-10-27 15:20:18 1PB6rB-00010j-S1 <= root at buzz1.curamsoftware.com U=root P=local S=842
> 2010-10-27 15:20:18 1PB6rB-00010j-S1 => root at buzz1.curamsoftware.com R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost
> 
> Basically it seems it has stopped reading the /etc/aliases file.
> 
> # /etc/aliases
> mailer-daemon: postmaster
> postmaster: root
> nobody: root
> hostmaster: root
> usenet: root
> news: root
> webmaster: root
> www: root
> ftp: root
> abuse: root
> noc: root
> security: root
> root: cronjobs at curamsoftware.com
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on how to resolve it?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> B
> 
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