cron, syslogd, klogd died
Quite serendipitously I discovered that the above processes had
stopped running on a potato system (i386) I have here. I noticed my
'locate' command did not seem to be returning good results, and when I
looked it was dated Oct 18. Then 'ps ax' told the Rest of the Story. A
reboot brought those three services up and all seems well now. Three
questions occur to me:
1] What might bring about those three processes (and no others,
apparently) dying?
2] What might be the reason I did not get notification that there was
a problem? I notice the user aliased for root and postmaster's mail
did not get notified of the problem, and in fact does not seem to be
getting *any* system reports. I coulda sworn I ran 'newaliases' after
I set up /etc/aliases.
3] I note this language in 'man aliases':
"After aliasing has been done, local and valid recipients who have a
".forward" file in their home directory have messages forwarded to the
list of users defined in that file."
Does this mean the user who I have aliased to get root and
postmaster's must have a .forward file in his home directory in order
to get mail for root and postmaster? I don't understand the connection
between aliasing and .forward files. I have the used the latter, for
instance with procmail, or send mail on to another email address, but
why this mention of .forward in 'man aliases'.
Sorry to go on so long here. Many tia's for light shed on any of the
above confusions!
--
Bob Bernstein
at
Esmond, R.I., USA
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