On Friday 24 February 2006 09:42, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Friday 24 February 2006 09:06, Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> > Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:45, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
>> > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 10:36:19PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > > > > <snippage>
>> > > > > I don't seem to be getting any email from RDJ recently. 
>> > > > > Maybe since the time I switch this system from fetchmail to
>> > > > > a mailfile, and from there had kmail running SA which was a
>> > > > > cpu killer.  Now I have fetchmail handing it off to
>> > > > > procmail, which is doing the SA application and things are
>> > > > > quite a bit happier.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I didn't play with sendmail so its still supposedly handling
>> > > > > the locally generated emails, and I just looked in
>> > > > > /var/spool/mail and all accounts there are at 0 length so
>> > > > > kmail is indeed picking up everything put there.  If RDJ is
>> > > > > sending me email from its early morning run, its getting
>> > > > > lost someplace.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Also, where would it put it if it did dl a new version of
>> > > > > itself?
>> > > >
>> > > > Probably in /etc/mail/spamassassin/RulesDuJour/.
>> > >
>> > > And you are correct, its the same length anyway, as the one I
>> > > dl'd DBY and installed by hand.  Now to figure out why its not
>> > > sending me email.
>> > >
>> > > A snippet or 3 from a 'crontab -l' as root:
>> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > > 06 22 * * *     /etc/init.d/asmb restart
>> > > 40 4 * * 0      /root/bin/fetchmail-restart
>> > > 37 6 * * *      /usr/local/sbin/rules_du_jour
>> > >
>> > > And I am getting email from the first 2 of those, but not the
>> > > third. The 2nd one is to allow logrotate to close the logfiles
>> > > and reopen them. However, I may have to delay that more than 4
>> > > minutes it appears.
>> >
>> > RDJ has it's own email settings.  Add a line to your RDJ config
>> > file:
>> >
>> > MAIL_ADDRESS="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
>>
>> Ok, this was set to gene, whose also in the kmail suckage list, and
>> who does get email ok as thats the user who runs the email system
>> here.
>>
>> And I note that if I run RDJ by hand, all steps involving curl are
>> returning a '304', an error code not defined in the manpage. Any
>> idea what that means?
>
>This how RDJ sends mail.  Try it as root on your box and see what
>happens.
>
>    echo -e "test email" | \
>    sh -c "mail -s \"Test subject\" [EMAIL PROTECTED]";

Did that.  Got the mail ok.  Also got one sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But I didn't get one from RDJ this morning.  So thats a puzzler.

>A 304 status code indicates that the page has not been changed and
>does not need to be downloaded.  I believe this is normal unless one
>of the rule sets has changed.

I see, thanks.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word
'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's
stupid bounce rules.  I do use spamassassin too. :-)
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