Ceri Townsend <cerit@nospam.teleord.co.uk> wrote:
> Hopefully someone can me work this out.
>
> The mail comes from cron, showing the output of the job that has run. The
> mail is delayed by one day. Here is the extract from the maillog:
>
> Mar 26 19:00:05 server1 sendmail[14291]: m2PJ01bU014291: to=<user1>,
> ctladdr=<user1> (1009/1012), delay=1+00:00:04, xdelay=00:00:01,
> mailer=relay, pri=3739618, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0,
> stat=Sent (m2QJ04t9008251 Message accepted for delivery)
>
> All other cron mails seem to be delivered on time. The box is quite
> heavily loaded, but this is true all the time so I dont think that is the
> problem.
>
> We are using Redhat AS 4 Update 4, with sendmail 8.13.1-3.
>
> I would also like to know where the mail is being kept for these 24 hours,
> as I can't seem to find it in /var/spool/mqueue or /var/spool/clientmqueue
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ceri

1) Locate (and post) *OTHER* log entries created by the message.
grep m2PJ01bU014291 _the-log-file_
2) Scan the log for "overload" reports

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