since F20 update, cron has stopped sending mail

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Fri Jan 3 15:37:34 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 09:22:17AM -0600, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 01/03/2014 09:16 AM, Steve Searle wrote:
> > Around 03:13pm on Friday, January 03, 2014 (UK time), Steven Stern wrote:
> > 
> >> Any idea what I need to do to get my cron email restored?
> > 
> > Check if you have sendmail installed - it is no longer installed by
> > default on Fedora 20 and the default installation will no longer handle
> > local mail.
> > 
> > There is a long and entertaining thread about this if you like that sort
> > of thing :-)
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Sendmail is running.  Other services (like yum-updatesd) are properly
> sending mail.
> 
> 
> $ ps -ef |grep sendmail
> root      1803     1  0 09:17 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: accepting
> connections
> smmsp     1828     1  0 09:17 ?        00:00:00 sendmail: Queue
> runner at 01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue

What does the following tell you?

  # journalctl -ru sendmail

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